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Newspaper Industry Profiles

To learn about the newspaper industry, see the Pew Research Center Journalism & Media Newspaper Fact Sheet.

The decline of local newspapers between 2004 and 2022

A report on local news in the United States revealed that 2,514 weekly publications closed down or merged with other papers between 2004 and 2022, with the number of non-daily papers falling from over 7.4 thousand to just 5.1 thousand in that period, and dailies dropping from closed to 1,500 to under 1,250. This includes over 100 dailies which changed to weeklies.

Top ten highest circulating newspapers in the United States as of July 2022

This list of the "top 10 highest circulating newspapers in the United States" varies from list of newspapers in the graphic, left, from the Statista database. The list below was compiled by Agility PR Solutions in July 2022. Be sure to compare similar time periods and the methods for obtaining results.

  1. The Wall Street Journal
  2. The New York Times
  3. USA Today: Established in 1982 drawing on coverage from smaller newspapers nationwide.
  4. The Washington Post
  5. The Los Angeles Times
  6. The New York Post
  7. Tampa Bay Times
  8. Chicago Tribune
  9. Newsday
  10. Star-Tribune

Statista database

Research the newspaper industry in Statista using keywords "print media", newspapers" and "newspaper publishing."