The Yale Daily News is the oldest college newspaper in the United States. Founded in 1878, it is published Monday through Friday during the academic year and serves the Yale and New Haven communities. The YDN Historical Archive contains more than 140 years of digitized issues of the paper.
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During the first half of the 20th century, the New York Daily News was one of the top-selling newspapers in the United States. The tabloid attracted readers with sensational stories about crime, scandal and violence, lurid photographs, and a large entertainment section. In recent years, circulation has declined dramatically. The current owner, Tronc, has announced plans to close the newspaper.
Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project is working to understand the changing nature of American news media in the digital age. The Project explores the ways news organizations are evolving and the impact these changes have on society and democracy. The work is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
This chart shows the average number of monthly unique visitors to the websites of the top 50 U.S. daily newspapers as of 2022, according to data from Comscore. The smallest daily newspapers, which are mostly regional or local, have an average audience of about 4 million unique visitors per month. The largest, the New York Times, has about 8.5 million.
Circulation figures are taken from reports submitted to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (AAM). Some major dailies, such as The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, include digital subscriptions in their AAM reporting but not in this chart because they have independently produced and publicly available figures that cannot easily be merged with AAM data.
The most widely read daily newspapers have an average of 8.8 million unique visitors each month across all devices. The next most-read newspapers have an average of 7.8 million. The least-read daily newspapers have an average of 1.7 million unique visitors.
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