As of 2025, the United States had 938^[1]daily newspapers that were printed and distributed in the nation.^[2] Newspapers' audiences can be nationwide, regional, local, or focused on particular demographic groups and interests. While traditionally focused on printed publications, many major newspapers now have significantly more online subscribers than print readers.^[3]

The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by average weekdaycirculation and paid subscribers in 2023.^[4][3]

Newspaper	Primary service area	Headquarters	Total	Digital Subscribers	Print circulation	Year	Owner	Nameplate
The New York Times	New York Metro Area,National, International	New York City	11,550,400	11,300,000[5]	250,400[6]	1851	The New York Times Company
The Wall Street Journal	New York Metro Area,National, International	New York City	4,573,700	4,100,000[7]	473,700[6]	1889	News Corp
The Washington Post	Washington Metropolitan Area,National	Washington, D.C.	2,297,000	2,200,000[8]	97,000[9]	1887	Nash Holdings
USA Today	National	McLean, Virginia	1,803,600	1,700,000[10]	103,600[6]	1982	Gannett Company
Chicago Tribune	Chicago metropolitan area	Chicago, Illinois	496,500	436,000	60,500[6]	1847	Tribune Publishing Company
Los Angeles Times	Los Angeles Metropolitan Area	El Segundo, California	354,100	275,000[11]	79,100[6]	1881	Nant Capital
The Boston Globe	Boston Metropolitan Area	Boston, Massachusetts	305,680	254,880	50,800[6]	1872	Boston Globe Media Partners
Minnesota Star Tribune	Twin Cities (Minneapolis–St. Paul)	Minneapolis, Minnesota	173,000	102,000	71,000[12]	1867	Star Tribune Media Company
New York Post	New York Metro Area	New York City	122,100	n/a	122,100[6]	1801	News Corp
Newsday	Long Island, New York	Melville, New York	106,300	31,000[13]	75,300[6]	1940	Newsday Media Group

• The New Hampshire Gazette (1756)
• Hartford Courant (1764, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States)
• The Register Star (Hudson, New York, 1785)
• Poughkeepsie Journal (1785)
• The Augusta Chronicle (1785)
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 1786)
• Daily Hampshire Gazette (September 1784)
• The Berkshire Eagle (1789)
• The Daily Mail (Catskill, NY, 1792)
• The Recorder (1792)
• Intelligencer Journal (1794, nowLNP)
• Rutland Herald (1794)
• Norwich Bulletin (1796)
• The Keene Sentinel (1799)
• New York Post (1801)
• The Post and Courier (1803)
• The Bedford Gazette (1805)
• Goshen Independent (1806)
• The Bourbon County Citizen (1807) (established asThe Western Citizen, it is the oldest in the state of Kentucky)
• Press-Republican (April 12, 1811)^[14]
• The Repository (March 30, 1815) (established asThe Ohio Repository, it is the oldest in the state ofOhio)^[15]
• The Fayetteville Observer (1816)
• Observer-Dispatch (1817)
• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1819)
• Woodville Republican (1824)
• Kennebec Journal (1825)
• Cherokee Phoenix (1828)
• Ledger-Enquirer (1828, founded asColumbus Enquirer)^[16]
• Star-Gazette (1828, founded asElmira Gazette, the first newspaper of the nowGannett conglomerate)
• The Providence Journal (1829)
• The Post-Standard (1829)
• The Philadelphia Inquirer (1829, founded asThe Pennsylvania Inquirer)
• The Stamford Advocate (1829, founded asThe Stamford Intelligencer)
• The Barnstable Patriot (1830)
• Detroit Free Press (1831)
• New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (1834, oldest non-English newspaper, claims to be oldest that has never missed a publication date)
• The Baltimore Sun (1837)
• The Times Picayune (1837, founded asThe Picayune)
• The Mining Journal (1841)
• The Plain Dealer (1842)
• Boston Herald (1846)
• The Newport Daily News (1846)
• The Chicago Tribune (1847)
• The Daily Standard (Celina, Ohio, 1848)
• Taunton Daily Gazette (1848)^[17]
• The Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in theSouthwestern andWestern United States)
• The Oregonian (1850)
• Deseret News (1850)^[18]
• Placerville Mountain Democrat (1851)
• Ellsworth American (1851)
• The New York Times (1851)
• The Express-Times (1855)
• The Florida Times-Union (1864, founded asThe Florida Union)
• Parsons Sun (1871)
• The Detroit News (1873)
• The Daily Journal (New Jersey) (1875)
• The Daily Item (Lynn) (1877)
• The Washington Post (1877)
• Organized Labor (1900)

List of lists of newspapers:

• List of free daily newspapers in the United States
• List of international newspapers originating in the United States
• List of national newspapers in the United States
• List of newspapers serving cities over 100,000 in the United States
• List of weekly newspapers in the United States

• 19th-century newspapers that supported the Prohibition Party
• List of African American newspapers in the United States
• English-language press of the Socialist Party of America
• List of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States
• List of business newspapers in the United States
• List of family-owned newspapers in the United States
• List of Jewish newspapers in the United States
• List of LGBT periodicals in the United States
• List of student newspapers in the United States
• List of supermarket tabloids in the United States
• List of underground press in the United States
• Category:Asian-American press
• Category:Ethnic press in the United States

• List of French-language newspapers published in the United States
• List of German-language newspapers published in the United States
• List of Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States

• List of defunct newspapers of the United States

• Associated Press
• Lists of newspapers
• List of newspapers in the world by circulation
• List of newspapers in Canada
• List of historical societies in the United States

• U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present sponsored jointly by theNational Endowment for the Humanities and theLibrary of Congress
• Top 100 US Newspapers Listed by Circulation at ThePaperboy.com
• U.S. Newspapers Currently Received at theLibrary of Congress

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