Table : TABLE 8.1 THE NATION’S TEN LARGEST DAILY NEWSPAPERS, 2014Note: Count includes print and digital editions.Data from: Cision, “Top 10 US Daily Newspapers,” June 18, 2014, www.cision.com/us/2014/06/top-10-us-daily-newspapers; and Alliance for Audited Media, www.auditedmedia.com/news/blog/top-25-us-newspapers-for-march-2013.aspx.*The Gannett-owned USA Today jumped from third in 2013 (1,674,306) to first in 2014 because since 2014, its circulation figures have included all the brief USA Today inserts found in Gannett’s largest daily papers, such as the Detroit Free Press, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Nashville Tennessean, and the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Newspaper2014 Weekday Circulation (print and digital)
1. USA Today*3,255,157
2. Wall Street Journal2,294,093
3. New York Times2,149,012
4. Orange County Register681,512
5. Los Angeles Times673,171
6. San Jose Mercury News581,532
7. New York Post477,314
8. (New York) Daily News456,360
9. (Long Island, N.Y.) Newsday443,362
10. Washington Post436,601