The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation
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Most people today—more than 8 in 10 Americans—get their news via digital devices, doing their reading on apps, listening to podcasts, or scrolling through social media feeds. It’s no surprise then that over the last year, only one U.S. newspaper of the top 25 most popular in the country saw positive growth in their daily print circulations.
Based on data from Press Gazette, this visual stacks up the amount of daily newspapers different U.S. publications dole out and how that’s changed year-over-year.
Dataset
Rank | Newspaper | Average Daily Print Circulation | Year-Over-Year Change |
---|---|---|---|
#1 | Wall Street Journal | 697493 | -11% |
#2 | New York Times | 329781 | -9% |
#3 | USA Today | 159233 | -13% |
#4 | Washington Post | 159040 | -12% |
#5 | New York Post | 146649 | -2% |
#6 | Los Angeles Times | 142382 | -14% |
#7 | Chicago Tribune | 106156 | -16% |
#8 | Star Tribune | 103808 | -9% |
#9 | Tampa Bay Times | 102266 | -26% |
#10 | Newsday | 97182 | -12% |
#11 | Seattle Times | 86406 | -10% |
#12 | Honolulu Star-Advertiser | 79096 | -5% |
#13 | Arizona Republic | 70216 | -10% |
#14 | Boston Globe | 68806 | -11% |
#15 | Dallas Morning News | 65369 | -10% |
#16 | Houston Chronicle | 65084 | -17% |
#17 | Philadelphia Inquirer | 61180 | -20% |
#18 | San Francisco Chronicle | 60098 | -12% |
#19 | Denver Post | 57265 | -13% |
#20 | Chicago Sun-Times | 57222 | -7% |
#21 | The Buffalo News | 56005 | -15% |
#22 | Daily News | 55653 | -18% |
#23 | Villages Daily Sun | 49183 | 3% |
#24 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 48246 | -11% |
#25 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | 47832 | -13% |
Data sources
Most of the circulation figures are average Monday-Friday figures for the six months to March 2022. *However, the figures for the Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Denver Post are for the six months to September 2021. **The Tampa Bay Times’ average circulation figure is for Wednesdays (it is no longer a daily newspaper) ***as is the Seattle Times’ number (the Seattle Times does not report an average weekday figure).