Leading print newspapers U.S. by circulation 2022

The newspaper with the highest print circulation in the United States in the six months running to March 2022 was The Wall Street Journal, with an average weekday print circulation of 697.49 thousand. Ranking second was The New York Times, followed by USA Today. The paper in the ranking with the highest year-over-year drop in circulation was Tampa Bay Times with a decline of 26 percent.

Largest daily newspapers in the United States in the six months to March 2022, by average print circulation (in thousands)

Characteristic	Circulation in thousands
Wall Street Journal	697.49
New York Times	329.78
USA Today	159.23
Washington Post	159.04
New York Post	146.65
Los Angeles Times	142.38
Chicago Tribune*	106.16
Tampa Bay Times**	102.27
Newsday	97.18
Seattle Times***	86.41
Honolulu Star-Advertiser*	79.1
Arizona Republic	70.22
Boston Globe	68.81
Dallas Morning News	65.37
Houson Chronicle	65.08
Philadelphia Inquirer	61.18
San Francisco Chronicle	60.1
Denver Post*	57.27
Chicago Sun-Times	57.22
The Buffalo News	56.01
Daily News	55.65
Villages Daily Sun	49.18
St. Louis Post-Dispatch	48.25
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	47.83
Star Tribune	103.81

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September 2022

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United States

Survey time period

March 2022

Supplementary notes

The source noted that the majority of figures given were average Monday-Friday figures for the six months to March 2022, with some exceptions noted below.
*Figures for the Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and Denver Post are for the six months to September 2021, not the six months to March 2022. At the time of publication, more current figures were not provided.
**The average circulation figure for The Tampa Bay Times is for Wednesdays as the publication is no longer a daily newspaper.
***The number for the Seattle Times number (the Seattle Times does not report an average weekday figure.

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