5 Biggest Newspapers in the US

3. The New York Times

Average weekday paid circulation in 2019: 483,701

If there’s one newspaper that more or less everyone will know about, it is the New York Times. The paper is also one of the oldest in our list of the biggest newspapers in the US and was founded nearly 170 years ago in 1851. The readership of the newspaper is not just in the US but worldwide, and the paper has won 130 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper in the world. The paper is owned by The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) and has a staff of over 1,300.