Daily papers
USA Today, a national newspaper introduced by Gannett in 1982, was one of the first newspapers to make heavy use of colour in pictures, maps and graphics. Most major newspapers in the United States now use colour. USA Today is being printed in 32 locations in the United States and two outside the country and has a bigger circulation than that of any metropolitan daily newspaper. Other important newspapers are the Chicago Tribune, sold in the Midwest, the Rocky Mountain News, sold in the mountain states, and The Christian Science Monitor, sold in cities nationally. Daily newspapers are published on every day of the week except Sunday. There are quality papers and tabloids which are also called the “ yellow press ”. Most American dailies are “quality” papers and reflect responsible journalism. Sensational press products like the New York Daily News are more of an exception. Today there are about 9000 different newspapers with a circulation figure of 60 million copies. About 80 newspapers are foreign-language publications. Press organs of international excellence are furthermore The Christian Science Monitor and the two weekly magazines Time and Newsweek. The Wall Street Journal and The Herald Tribune with their different editions in Europe and Asia have started a new era, that of the world paper.
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There are more than 1500 daily newspapers in the USA. Each one is usually sold only in one part of the country, but they cover national and international news. Due to the size and the federal character of the US, it was virtually impossible to have a nation-wide press comparable to the British press. However, several big newspapers have succeeded. USA Today was launched in 1982 as the first American national newspaper. The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have now established themselves as major national news organs, whose political coverage and analyses play an important role in the political process; the Philadelphia Inquirer Miami Herald and Boston Globe have produced significant, nationally recognized, coverage and investigations; and the New York Times, which for most of the century has been the most respected and influential newspaper in the United States, and the Wall Street Journal, the business daily, are both now printed and distributed nationally.
