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 circulation

The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by average weekday paid circulation in 2019.^[3]

Newspaper	Primary service area	Headquarters	Circulation	Owner	Nameplate
USA Today	National	McLean, Virginia	1,621,091	Gannett Company
The Wall Street Journal	National	New York City	1,011,200	News Corp
The New York Times	National	New York City	483,701	The New York Times Company
New York Post	New York metropolitan area	New York City	426,129	News Corp
Los Angeles Times	Los Angeles metropolitan area	El Segundo, California	417,936	Nant Capital
The Washington Post	Washington Metro Area	Washington, D.C.	254,379	Nash Holdings
Star Tribune	Minneapolis–Saint Paul	Minneapolis, Minnesota	251,822	Star Tribune Media Company
Newsday	Long Island, New York	Melville, New York	251,473	Newsday Media Group
Chicago Tribune	Chicago metropolitan area	Chicago, Illinois	238,103	Tribune Publishing Company
The Boston Globe	Boston metropolitan area	Boston, Massachusetts	230,756	Boston Globe Media Partners

Longest-running newspapers

• 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, 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 Santa Fe New Mexican (1849, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the Southwestern and Western United States)
• Placerville Mountain Democrat (1851)

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

• 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