List of newspapers in the United States

The following is a list of the top 10 newspapers in the United States by average weekday circulation and paid subscribers in 2023.

• 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)

List of lists of 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

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

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