A girl holding a copy of The Washington Post , reporting the Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 21, 1969 There are many newspapers printed and distributed in the United States .
As of 2018[update] , the United States had 1,279[1] daily newspapers.[2]
Top 10 newspapers by subscribers and print circulation The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by average weekday circulation and paid subscribers in 2023.[3] [4]
Longest-running newspapers The New Hampshire Gazette (1756)The Newport Daily News (originally published as The Newport Mercury in 1758)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, now LNP)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 (published in Goshen New York 1806 – present)The Bourbon County Citizen (1807) (established as The Western Citizen , it is the oldest in the state of Kentucky)Press-Republican (April 12, 1811)[5] The Fayetteville Observer (1816)Observer-Dispatch (1817)Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1819)Woodville Republican (1824)Kennebec Journal (1825)Cherokee Phoenix (1828)Ledger-Enquirer (1828, founded as Columbus Enquirer )[6] Star-Gazette (1828, founded as Elmira Gazette , the first newspaper of the now massive Gannett conglomerate)The Providence Journal (1829)The Post-Standard (1829)The Philadelphia Inquirer (1829, founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer )The Stamford Advocate (1829, founded as The Stamford Intelligencer )The Barnstable Patriot (1830)The Boston Post (1831)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 Mining Journal (1841)The Plain Dealer (1842)Boston Herald (1846)The Chicago Tribune (1847)The Daily Standard (Celina, Ohio , 1848)Taunton Daily Gazette (1848)[7] The Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Southwestern and Western United States )Deseret News (1850)[8] Placerville Mountain Democrat (1851)Ellsworth American (1851)The New York Times (1851)The Detroit News (1873)The Daily Item (Lynn) (1877)The Washington Post (1877)
United States newspapers by state and territory List of lists of newspapers:
Other lists of U.S. newspapers
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See also
Notes ^ Watson, Amy. "Number of daily newspapers in the U.S. 1970-2018". statista.com . ^ "Newspaper Circulation Volume". Newspaper Association of America . September 4, 2012. Archived from the original on January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016 . ^ Majid, Aisha (April 6, 2023). "Mail joins 100k Club: Exclusive ranking of world's top paywalled news publishers". Press Gazette . Retrieved November 6, 2023 . ^ Majid, Aisha (June 26, 2023). "Top 25 US newspaper circulations: Largest print titles fall 14% in year to March 2023". Press Gazette . Retrieved November 6, 2023 . ^ About Us", Press-Republican . Originally published as the Plattsburgh Republican , then became the Press-Republican after a merger on October 5, 1942. ^ "Prospectus for the Columbus Enquirer, January 1828 | TSLAC". www.tsl.texas.gov . Retrieved January 18, 2018 . ^ "Taunton Daily Gazette (Taunton [Mass.]) 1848-Current". www.loc.gov . Retrieved November 19, 2022 . ^ "Deseret News". www.deseret.com . December 21, 2023. Retrieved April 13, 2024 .
References Alliance for Audited Media Research & Data Top 100 US Newspapers Listed by Circulation at ThePaperboy.com U.S. Newspapers Currently Received at the Library of Congress
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