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There are many newspapers printed and distributed in the United States.
As of 2018, the United States had 1,279[1] daily newspapers.[2]
Top 10 newspapers by circulation
The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by average weekday paid circulation in 2019.[3]
Longest-running newspapers
- The New Hampshire Gazette (1756)
- The Newport (RI) 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)
- The Bourbon County Citizen (1807) (established as The Western Citizen, it is the oldest in the state of Kentucky)
- Press-Republican (April 12, 1811)[4]
- 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)[5]
- 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)
- The Mining Journal (1841)
- The Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Southwestern and Western United States)
- Placerville Mountain Democrat (1851)
- Ellsworth American (1851)
By state and territory
List of lists of newspapers:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- 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
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- 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
- 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
See also
Notes
- ^ Watson, Amy. "Number of daily newspapers in the U.S. 1970-2018". statista.com.
- ^ "Newspaper Circulation Volume". Newspaper Association of America. 4 September 2012. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ "Top 10 U.S. Daily Newspapers". Cision. January 4, 2019. Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
- ^ 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 2018-01-18.
References
External links
- U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress