Top 20 U.S. Dailies by Circulation
 

Average Daily Circulation1

 
Rank Name Circulation
     
1 The Wall Street Journal

1,752,693

(m)

2 USA Today

1,671,539

(m)

3 The New York Times

1,086,293

(m)

4 Los Angeles Times

1,078,186

(m)

5 The Washington Post

763,305

(m)

6 Daily News, New York

701,831

(m)

7 Chicago Tribune

657,690

(m)

8 Newsday

574,941

(m)

9 Houston Chronicle

542,414

(m)

10 The Dallas Morning News

490,249

(m)

11 Chicago Sun-Times

468,170

(m)

12 The Boston Globe

462,850

(m)

13 San Francisco Chronicle

456,742

(m)

14 New York Post

438,158

(m)

15 The Arizona Republic

433,296

(m)

16 The Star-Ledger, Newark

407,129

(m)

17 The Philadelphia Inquirer

399,339

(m)

18 Denver Rocky Mountain News

396,114

(m)

19 The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

386,312

(m)

20 San Diego Union-Tribune

376,604

(m)



1Average for six months ended Sept. 30, 1999

Source: Newspaper Association of America
www.naa.org/info/facts00/14.html