List of newspapers in the United States

There are many newspapers printed and distributed in the United States.

As of 2018, the United States had 1,279 daily newspapers.

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.

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 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

• 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

See also

• Associated Press
• Lists of newspapers
• List of newspapers in the world by circulation
• List of newspapers in Canada

Notes

References

External links

• U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress