Talk:List of newspapers in the United States

Link for each newspaper

I think it is best to provide a potential link for each newspaper, even if red, rather than delete them. 1) It provides a way to know what needs to be written, 2) If it is written, it automatically linked back. dml 17:55, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

What is "major"? Would it work for the criterion to be carriage of legal notices (being a "newspaper of record" in the community)? And if a paper comes out two times a week is that called "weekly"? The particular ones I have in mind are the newspapers of record in their cities (county seats) and one is weekly but the other three come out twice a week. ;Bear 22:20, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)

Links for each state

Much like there have been lists provided for each state for radio and TV stations, school districts, etc., for each individual state, it is time to provide individual links to new articles that list newspapers for each state.

That is, "List of newspapers in Iowa," etc.

Each article would then list newspapers that are distributed daily, weekly/bi-weekly, etc., with links to each of those newspapers.

The list in the article "List of newspapers in the United States" is quite lengthy, and needs to be pared down to just the most important newspapers under each state heading. One would be able to list every newspaper published in a particular state under the "List of newspapers in (state)" series. Briguy52748 1720, 2005 June 20 (EDT)

I just created an article for the article for the Alpena News, and was trying to create a wiki link. I don't know if that meets your criteria, and in any event don't know where to edit. If it fits your criteria, please add a wiki link to the Michigan list. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 17:09, 16 November 2008 (UTC) Stan

Criteria for "Major Newspapers"

I've been working on the List of newspapers in Alabama article, and it's getting a bit lengthy itself. The list on this page is not representative, so I will modify it accordingly, but I'm not sure what criteria to use. Here are some possiblities I can think of. Feel free to comment:

1. The top ten from each state ranked by circulation (according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations)?
2. All newspapers with a average daily paid circulation above a certain number (30,000? 50,000? 100,000?)
3. All daily newspapers of record?
4. The major newspapers from the states' largest cities?
5. List only papers with significant national distribution here and leave the rest on individual states' pages?

-Dystopos 02:51, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Reduction

I agree with the previous comments: this page needs to be pared down. It exceeds the recommended article size, and also forces users adding new papers to decide if it should be added here, on the individual state page, or both. (An unclear decision, since what constitutes a "major" newspaper is indeed subjective.) I think the most appropriate move would be to make this page simply a list of links to each state list (with the exception of nationwide papers which would remain here). Comments/alternatives/suggestions? Huw 14:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Suggestions on method

I suggest that any newspaper intended for national distribution Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Barons, etc.

"Well known" local newspapers be kept as "national", which would include N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, L.A. Times, Chicago's two papers etc. But how do you define a well-known newspaper? So the criteria could be something like the following:

• Include on this page all "national" newspapers
• Include all "well known" papers, ones having more than some minimum subscription and generally having use outside their local areas. Basically I think any paper doing over 250,000 or 500,000 copies a day qualifies.
• Divide this article into individual state pages
• Include on the state pages ALL newspapers of public record
• Include on the state pages any paper having at least some minimum circulation relative to that state, i.e a paper in Cheyenne, Wyoming getting 1,000 subscribers generally has more significance than a 10,000 subscriber paper in New York City.
• Include on the state page any local paper which is the only paper for that town or county
• Include papers that fit the criteria even if no article exists for them, i.e redline links (at this time). We need to include the links as it might encourage someone to write an article about a known nearby paper in their area.

Paul Robinson 19:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

• Might it be better to use transclusion, instead of entering the text naming newspapers here, we reference them from their original pages through the include context {{source_article}} which, while normally used as a template, can be used to have other articles work as transclusion templates. I have to look at how to use articles outside the template workspace to figure out how this is done for non-template articles, but I think it might be useful.

Paul Robinson 19:19, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

• I have figured out how to use transclusion to use links from other pages. Take a look at the entries for California and Florida, they consist solely of a single line consisting of transclusion of the list pages. Paul Robinson 20:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I have done it!

I have been able to create the individual state entries as transclusion links. By taking a state page and marking it so that parts are not transcluded, the state page can include local smaller papers.

This works beautifully; see Alabama's page (List of newspapers in Alabama) to see how it includes the major papers here but the smaller and weekly papers are shown ONLY on that page. It is conceivable that inividual items in various states can be kept off this article by use of <noinclude> </noinclude> to exclude them. Paul Robinson 21:20, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

List of newspapers in the United States

The title of this list was "List of newspapers in the United States." When you opened the list, you saw

1. List of major daily newspapers distributed nationally in the United States
2. List of major daily metropolitan newspapers (by state) in the United States
3. List of weekly newspapers in the United States, and
4. a few other lists.

If the above were maintained, then the name of the article should have to renamed List of lists of newspapers in the United States. In addition, there are subjective problems with some of the above lists (e.g., the term major) but not all of the above lists. Subjective problems are better dealt with on an individual list. Based on existing lists, the types of newspapers as defined in newspaper types, and a general search of Wikipedia for articles relating to lists of newspapers in the United States, I have attempted to rearrange newspapers in the United States into the below lists:

Comprehensive

• List of newspapers
• List of all newspapers in the United States

Days delivered

• List of daily newspapers in the United States
• List of weekly newspapers in the United States
• List of Sunday (only) newspapers in the United States

Circulation

• List of major newspapers serving cities over 100,000 in the United States
• List of national newspapers in the United States
• List of newspaper of record in the United States
• List of newspapers in the United States by circulation
• List of international newspapers originating in the United States

Specialty

• List of African American newspapers in the United States
• List of alternative newspapers (political left) in the United States
• List of alternative newspapers (political right) in the United States
• List of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States
• List of business newspaper in the United States
• List of family owned newspapers in the United States
• List of fictional newspapers in the United States
• List of free daily newspapers in the United States
• List of free weekly newspapers in the United States
• List of student newspapers in the United States
• List of supermarket tabloids in the United States
• List of underground press in the United States

Other

• List of defunct newspapers of the United States
• List of online newspaper archives of the United States

-- Jreferee 18:29, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

ALL newspapers

The name of the article is "List of all newspapers in the US." There is no reason to restrict ourselves to "major" ones. Either change the article name or change the article. Thanos6 16:48, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

We ought to have a list of major daily newspapers, as that would be more useful. Also: are there really only two newspapers in Illinois? This seems unlikely. john k (talk) 22:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

This should be moved to List of newspapers in the United States. The "all" is unnecessary and incorrect. I'm sure this article does not, and will not ever, list every single newspaper. -R. fiend (talk) 16:50, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Deorpahing Duo Wei Times

This newspaper related article has 0 incomming links:Duo Wei Times. Can someone put it in the appropriate place in this article. Thanks. --Deepak D'Souza (talk) 07:15, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Transclusion issues

Wikipedia:Template_namespace#Guidelines says that transclusion should generally not be used for article text. (I would include list contents in that.) I think the 50-state lists should be pushed out to individual articles with just a list of 50 links from here. -- Beland (talk) 06:44, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

New list

The figures for the United States are three and half years out of date.

It is presently October 2016, why are the most recent American newspaper circulation figures given for the period before March 2013 - is the falling circulation of American newspapers some sort of secret?2A02:C7D:B5B8:DA00:11A6:3729:F49C:DC98 (talk) 10:38, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

I've replaced the list with a new, more complete one. Unfortunately, it only shows the top 10 of US newspapers by circulation (both digital and printed) but at least it's complete (previous one didn't include important newspapers like "USA Today" and "The Wall Street Journal"

Karma1998 (talk) 08:32, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

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WSJ was dropped

This edit by User:Enos733 dropped The Wall Street Journal, which was previously listed as #1. Unless WSJ is no longer considered a "newspaper in the United States" or it is no longer in the top 25, the source is clearly in error, having simply overlooked WSJ in their latest reporting. Wikipedia does not blindly copy reliable source information that we know to be in error. I don't know the best solution, but I know this wasn't it. ―Mandruss ☎ 19:48, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I note that the cited source includes the following disclaimer:

Circulation is the five-day average for publications that are published Monday through Friday. The list only compares newspapers that report this five-day average. To be included in total circulation figures, digital subscriptions must be restricted access and comply with AAM standards.

This may explain why they omitted WSJ, we have no way of knowing. But at a minimum we should be providing the disclaimer in a footnote or something. Other Wikipedia articles will be linking to this one to support statements like "The New York Times is the largest newspaper in the United States", when the truth is that The New York Times is the largest daily newspaper in the United States that reports their five-day average, whose digital subscriptions are restricted access, and who comply with AAM standards (whatever those are). Those are very different statements. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:11, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I was very surprised too, and would be happy with any supplemental text. However, AAM does appear to be the best independent source of circulation numbers, and we should strive to keep list of rankings as current as possible. --Enos733 (talk) 21:00, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I'd return the WSJ to number one if we can obtain good publication statistics on it. If the comparison is too much apples vs. oranges, then some supplemental text is needed. The lede for the NYT article says that it's second in the US, which really begs the question. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:41, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

You are overvaluing a single source for your removal of the Wall Street Journal — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.6.114.194 (talk) 03:43, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Is circulation still the best measure of newspaper size?

Using only print circulation as the measure of newspaper size seems outdated and misleading. Should we use number of subscribers instead? Or list both? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.37.149.28 (talk) 18:32, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

I absolutely agree that print circulation is outdated and misleading. I think both should be listed, because there's no reason not too. NeutralASP (talk) 01:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm going to change it to number of subscribers NeutralASP (talk) 01:30, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Updated NeutralASP (talk) 04:55, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Introduction

The introduction of this article is not very good. One sentence that states an obvious fact for a nation of 400 million people and a random unrelated statistic about *daily* newspapers (which most newspapers aren't) -1ctinus📝🗨 17:40, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 1 February 2024

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 17:57, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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List of newspapers in the United States → Lists of newspapers in the United States – Most of this article is links to other articles, there is no single list of newspapers anywhere in this article -1ctinus📝🗨 17:40, 1 February 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 17:47, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject United States has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:30, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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• Oppose as unnecessary. Some1 (talk) 00:08, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
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USA circulation compared to other wikipedia newspaper circulation article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_by_circulation

Given the data that appears in the above article's entry for USA Today, shouldn't this article (list newspapers in US) have USA Today in third place on the table (˜4M circulation)? Which data is more reliable and accurate? The two data tables are measuring different time spans.

One measures daily circulation worldwide (USA Today ˜4Million).

The other measures average weekday circulation & subscribers; ˜2M (article list paper in US).

Is this a mistake in the data or am I reading the daily circulation worldwide wrong? Leonardo F d Aguiar (talk) 19:33, 4 July 2024 (UTC)