Most of Texas’s original newspapers didn’t survive past the Texas Revolution against Mexico in the 1830s, with nine publishers distributing newspapers between 1819 and 1836. By the time Texas had achieved U.S. statehood in the 1840s, however, the number of newspapers in the state had ballooned to 36. Updated October 2019 1. Houston Chronicle The […]
There are several dozen daily or weekly newspapers throughout Florida, with the oldest of them founded during the height of the U.S. Civil War. Today several large daily newspapers serve the state from Miami to the Panhandle. Updated October 2019 1. Tampa Bay Times Previously named the St. Petersburg Times (until 2011), this newspaper […]
The first Illinois newspaper, the Illinois Herald, began publishing all the way back in 1815 and by the time of the U.S. Civil War, there were more than 300 newspapers in the state. During the 1870s that number doubled and, by 1880, there were more than 1,000 newspapers in Illinois. Updated October 2019 1. The […]
The genesis of newspapers in the Golden State dates back to 1846, with the establishment of The Californian in Monterey (its first edition was fully bilingual in English and Spanish, and announced the beginning of the Mexican-American War). Since then California has built up one of the largest newspaper rosters in the country. Updated October […]
Magazines in the United States date back to the middle of the 18th century, with the initial publication of Andrew Bradford’s American Magazine and, a few months later, Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine. While neither of these publications lasted longer than a few months, the concept of regularly published periodicals was now part of the American […]
Even though New York’s first-ever newspaper – The Gazette, established 1725 – only ran for 19 years before closing up shop, New York state has a rich newspaper history (as some of the founding dates on this list confirm). Today, more than two dozen daily newspapers, and several more weekly and other newspapers, are published […]
Newspaper circulations have fallen in recent years thanks to stiff online competition and declining advertising revenues. But that doesn’t mean they’re not important – far from it, in fact. Newspapers are still one of the main ways Americans find and consume news across all demographics and age groups.
