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
- USA Today (2.3m)
- Wall Street Journal (2.1m)
- New York Times (1.1m)
- Los Angeles Times (774k)
- New York Daily News (703k)
- New York Post (702k)
- Washington Post (673k)
- Chicago Tribune (542k)
- Houston Chronicle (494k)
- 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.