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Daily newspapers published in the United States

  • The Washington PostThe Washington Post has its own ZIP Code. That single fact captures something essential about a newspaper so embedded in the geography and politics of the…
  • The Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe hit the streets for the first time on the 4th of March, 1872, priced at four cents. Six Boston businessmen had pooled $150,000 to launch it…
  • Miami HeraldThe first edition of the Miami Evening Record appeared on the 15th of September 1903. Frank B. Stoneman reorganized and moved the Orlando Record to Miami…
  • The Plain DealerIn January 1842, two brothers named Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray took over a struggling publication called The Cleveland Advertiser.
  • Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune published its first edition on the 10th of June 1847, founded by James Kelly, John E. Wheeler, and Joseph K. C. Forrest.
  • The Seattle TimesAlden J. Blethen purchased the Seattle Press-Times in 1896 for a sum that remains unrecorded in available sources. The four-page newspaper had started with a…
  • The Star-LedgerThe Star-Ledger arrived on New Jersey doorsteps every morning for decades, tossed at the end of driveways in towns across the state.
  • Chicago Sun-TimesThe Chicago Sun-Times landed on doorsteps for the first time on the 4th of December 1941, the day Marshall Field III's Chicago Sun published its debut issue.
  • Star-NewsStarNews, the daily newspaper serving Wilmington, North Carolina, holds a distinction that few American papers can claim: it is the oldest newspaper in North…
  • The Denver PostThe Denver Post once had more than 600 journalists working under a single joint agreement with its crosstown rival. Today it runs with a fraction of that…
  • The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionCarey Wentworth Styles purchased a small newspaper called the Atlanta Daily Opinion on the 16th of June 1868. He renamed it The Constitution and began…
  • The Cincinnati EnquirerThe first issue of the Daily Cincinnati Enquirer appeared on the 10th of April 1841. It contained just four pages of dense text that looked ugly and read…
  • Akron Beacon JournalThe Akron Beacon Journal traces its roots to 1839, when a predecessor paper called the Summit Beacon first rolled off the presses in Akron, Ohio.
  • USA TodayUSA Today hit newsstands on the 14th of September 1982, priced at 25 cents a copy, in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas.
  • The OklahomanThe Oklahoman has been Oklahoma's largest daily newspaper since it was founded in 1894, and at various points in its history it has been called both a pillar…