# List of newspapers in the United States

As of 2018, the United States had 1,279 daily newspapers that were printed and distributed in the nation.

## 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.
| Newspaper | Primary service area | Headquarters | Total | Subscribers | Print circulation | Year | Owner |
| The New York Times | New York metropolitan area, National, International | New York City | 9,126,330 | 8,830,000 | 296,330 | 1851 | The New York Times Company |
| The Wall Street Journal | New York metropolitan area, National, International | New York City | 3,779,650 | 3,170,000 | 609,650 | 1889 | News Corp |
| The Washington Post | Washington metropolitan area, National | Washington, D.C. | 2,635,980 | 2,500,000 | 135,980 | 1887 | Nash Holdings |
| USA Today | National | McLean, Virginia | 2,132,640 | 2,000,000 | 132,640 | 1982 | Gannett Company |
| Los Angeles Times | Los Angeles metropolitan area | El Segundo, California | 618,760 | 500,000 | 118,760 | 1881 | Nant Capital |
| Chicago Tribune | Chicago metropolitan area | Chicago, Illinois | 518,190 | 436,000 | 82,190 | 1847 | Tribune Publishing Company |
| The Boston Globe | Boston metropolitan area | Boston, Massachusetts | 315,380 | 254,880 | 60,500 | 1872 | Boston Globe Media Partners |
| Minnesota Star Tribune | Twin Cities (Minneapolis–Saint Paul) | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 191,920 | 100,000 | 91,920 | 1867 | Star Tribune Media Company |
| New York Post | New York metropolitan area | New York City | 135,980 | n/a | 135,980 | 1801 | News Corp |
| Newsday | Long Island, New York | Melville, New York | 86,850 | n/a | 86,850 | 1940 | Newsday Media Group |

## 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 (1806)
* The Bourbon County Citizen (1807) (established as The Western Citizen, it is the oldest in the state of Kentucky)
* Press-Republican (April 12, 1811)
* The Repository (March 30, 1815) (established as The Ohio Repository, it is the oldest in the state of Ohio)
* 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)
* 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 Times Picayune (1837, founded as The Picayune)
* 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)
* The Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Southwestern and Western United States)
* Deseret News (1850)
* Placerville Mountain Democrat (1851)
* Ellsworth American (1851)
* The New York Times (1851)
* The Express-Times (1855)
* The Florida Times-Union (1864, founded as The Florida Union)
* Parsons Sun (1871)
* The Detroit News (1873)
* The Daily Journal (New Jersey) (1875)
* The Daily Item (Lynn) (1877)
* The Washington Post (1877)

## United States newspapers by state and territory

List of lists of newspapers:
* Alabama
* Alaska
* American Samoa
* Arizona
* Arkansas
* California
* Colorado
* Connecticut
* Delaware
* Florida
* Georgia
* Guam
* Hawaii
* Idaho
* Illinois
* Indiana
* Iowa
* Kansas
* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Maine
* Maryland
* Massachusetts
* Michigan
* Minnesota
* Mississippi
* Missouri
* Montana
* Nebraska
* Nevada
* New Hampshire
* New Jersey
* New Mexico
* New York
* North Carolina
* North Dakota
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Ohio
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
* Pennsylvania
* Puerto Rico
* Rhode Island
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
* US Virgin Islands
* Utah
* Vermont
* Virginia
* Washington
* Washington, D.C.
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin
* Wyoming

## Other lists of U.S. 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

### By specialty

* 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

### By language

* 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

### Defunct

* List of defunct newspapers of the United States