Press in USA

New phenomenon of social life called price policy American periodicals in the middle of XIX century, newspapers began to cost only 1-2 cents.

In 1850 daily newspapers have reached total circulation of 2.5 million, and the weeklies had about 10 million.

The foundation of the "yellow" press have become newspaper «The New York Sun», «The New York Herald» and «The New York Tribune». Scandals and crime - is subjects of these editions. The pioneers of this genre was Joseph Pulitzer («The New York World») and William Hurst («The San Francisco Examiner», «New York Journal», etc.).

Investigative journalism
The genre of "investigative journalism" was formed by American journalists, who were called "muckrakers." As part of this genre was investigated the Watergate scandal, it was finest hour the industry. Later, the tradition of the genre inherited the American documentary film maker Michael Moore.

On May 23, 2008 in the United States, there were 1422 dailies and weeklies 6253.
Popularity daily newspapers falls from year to year, and in these conditions editions difficult save editorial independence. By 1990, in New York was only five daily newspapers and at the end of the XIX century, there were 18.

After the 2008 financial crisis, the state of the industry is not in the best shape. Only in 2008 was fired 16,000 journalists. Tribune Company (which owns the LA Times) declared bankruptcy. One of the oldest U.S. newspaper «Rocky Mountain News» has ceased to exist, putting an end to 150 years of its history.

List of the 25 most significant (in terms of circulation) U.S. publications:
USA Today
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Chicago Tribune
The Washington Post
New York Daily News
New York Post
The Denver Post
The Times Of Earth
The Dallas Morning News
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Houston Chronicle
The Detroit News / Detroit Free Press
Star Tribune
The Star-Ledger
The Boston Globe
The Arizona Republic
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Newsday
The Plain Dealer
San Francisco Chronicle
St. Petersburg Times
The Seattle Times / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Most old edition
The New Hampshire Newspaper (started in 1756)
The Hartford Courant (started in 1764)
The Augusta Chronicle (started in 1785)
Daily Hampshire Gazette (started in 1786)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (started in 1786)
The Berkshire Eagle (started in 1789)
The Recorder (started in 1792)
Rutland Herald (started in 1794)
Norwich Bulletin (started in 1796)
The Keene Sentinel (started in 1799)
New York Post (started in 1801)
The Post and Courier (started in 1803)
The Post-Standard (started in 1829)