Newspaper Companies Statistics

The Wall Street Journal’s average printed weekday circulation was 697,493 as of 2022.
During the same year, The Wall Street Journal had 3,749,000 news subscribers.
The New York Times received 488.3 million website visits in Jan 2023.
Its website received over three-times the amount of visits when compared to the second-most visited newspaper website for the month.
In addition, 92.07% of its subscribers are digital-only.
The Washington Post was sold to Nash Holdings (owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon) for $250 million in late 2013.
The New York Post posted a profit for the year-to-date in September 2022, its first in modern times.
The number of newspaper publishers in the US is 6,567 as of 2020.
This number has declined by 13.86% since 2012.
From 2014 – 2020, there was an increase of 68.53% in average monthly unique visitors for the top 50 US newspaper websites.

Biggest US newspaper companies

A graph is given below to show revenue figures for The New York Times:

During January 23, the paper’s website received 114.9 million visits in the US.
USA Today’s average printed weekday circulation was 159,233 as of 2022.
As of 2019, the company had a digital-only subscriber base of 504,000.
The company has an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million.
As of 2021, USA Today began introducing paywalls in order for readers to access some of its online articles.

During January 23, the paper’s website received 140.5 million visits in the US.
The Washington Post’s average printed weekday circulation was 159,040 as of 2022.
The company was sold to Nash Holdings (owned by Jeff Bezos) for $250 million in October 2013.
For the metropolitan area of Washington, The Washington Post is its most widely circulated newspaper.

During January 23, the paper’s website received 162.4 million visits in the US.
The New York Post’s average printed weekday circulation was 146,649 as of 2022.
The company was sold to Rupert Murdoch for $30.5 million in 1976.
As of September 2022, the newspaper posted a profit for the year-to-date, the first occurrence in modern times.

During January 23, the paper’s website received 135.1 million visits in the US.
The Daily Mail’s average printed weekday circulation was 797,704 as of 2023.
The company’s news website receives more than 218 million unique visitors each month.
In terms of demographics, its readers have an average age of 60 as of 2020.
Female readership is 53%, unique for a British daily newspaper.
Of major British daily newspapers, it has the lowest readership of readers between the ages of 15 – 44.

For the given data, The New York Times received the most website visits with 488.3 million.
The website received more than three-times the amount of visits as the second-most visited newspaper website.
The New York Post received 162.4 million visits (second)
The Washington Post received 140.5 million visits (third).
70% of the most visited newspaper websites in the US were US newspaper companies.
30% of the most visited newspaper websites in the US were UK newspaper companies.

(visits from Jan 23)

A graph is given below to show the top 5 most visited newspaper websites in the US:

As of 2020, the average monthly unique visitors for the top 50 US newspaper sites is 13.87 million.
Over the given period, there was an increase of 68.53% in average monthly unique visitors.
2017 was the only year which suffered a decline, dropping by 1.71%.

A graph is given below to show the top 50 US newspaper sites by average unique monthly visits: