Which newspapers people read in the US

by | Mar 19, 2009


Can’t remember where I saw this table this week, but it was interesting enough to track down the original Audit Bureau of Circulation stats.  Some of the data surprised me no end – who knew the WSJ would be the second most highly read newspaper in the US? 

Top 10 US newspapers by circulation

  1. USA Today (2.3m)
  2. Wall Street Journal (2.1m)
  3. New York Times (1.1m)
  4. Los Angeles Times (774k)
  5. New York Daily News (703k)
  6. New York Post (702k)
  7. Washington Post (673k)
  8. Chicago Tribune (542k)
  9. Houston Chronicle (494k)
  10. Arizona Republic (413k)

By way of comparison, the highest rated evening news programme is NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, which gets 9.9 million viewers.

Author

  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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