The World's Most Read Newspapers
"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier," said the prolific journalist H. L. Mencken. While various people hold different opinions, it's true that newspapers are the means of a daily dose of worldwide happenings and events that people can't seem to live without. Here are the most read newspapers in the world, not just in terms of circulation but also based on their website's unique visitors per month, as listed by Sufian Ullah for Click Top 10.
Daily Mail:
Daily Mail takes the first place on the list. It is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and it is the most read newspaper in the world. It was first published in 1896. It is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. The daily paper also has Scottish and Irish editions that were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The newspaper had an average daily circulation of 19, 91, 275 copies in April 2012. The website has over 100 million unique visitors per month.
From the start, the newspaper was targeted at women, and was the first to provide features especially for women, and is the only British newspaper with 53 percent female readership.
The New York Times:
The New York Times is the second most read newspaper in the world. The American daily newspaper was founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851. The newspaper's website is America's most popular news site, receiving more than 30 million unique visitors per month. The paper's print version continues to be the largest local metropolitan newspaper in the U.S. It is owned by The New York Times Company that also publishes 18 other newspapers. The paper's motto is "All the News That's Fit to Print", while its website has adapted it to "All the News That's Fit to Click". NYT has also been the recipient of 112 Pulitzer Prizes.
The Guardian: The Guardian is next on the list. Founded in 1821 by John Edward Taylor in Manchester, this British national daily newspaper has grown from a 19th-century local paper to a national paper associated with a complex organizational structure and international multimedia and web presence. In December last year The Guardian in paper form had an average daily circulation of 2, 04,222. The newspaper's online version is the second most popular British newspaper website. The paper is also powerful in the design and publishing arena.
Recent notable news include the newspaper breaking the news of the secret collection of Verizon telephone records held by Barack Obama's administration and subsequently revealed the existence of the PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to the paper by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
People's Daily: The People's Daily is the fourth most read newspaper in the world. It is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. It is controlled by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The paper is published globally with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. Its main edition is in Chinese language, but it also has editions in English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Korean.
Washington Post:The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper and ranks fifth on the list. It is the most extensively circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1877 the paper is the oldest in existence in the area. Located in the capital city of the U.S., the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. It has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes and has also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards. The newspaper is owned by The Washington Post Company, an education and media firm. This leading newspaper was also the one who had its reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the Watergate scandal.
The Sun: The Sun takes the sixth place on the list. It is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the UK and Ireland by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK. In print circulation the newspaper has the ninth-largest circulation of any newspaper in the world and the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the UK. It had an average daily circulation of 24, 09,811 copies in January 2013.
The average age of a Sun reader is 45 and around 45 percent of readers are women. This leading newspaper has been involved in a number of controversies, including its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster, false allegations against Elton John, etc. The Sun also has an iPad edition that costs £4.99 for subscription for a month.
The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal is the seventh most read newspaper in the world. It is an American English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. Published six days a week in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, the paper also has Asian and European editions. It is the largest newspaper in the U.S., by circulation. As per the Alliance for Audited Media, the Journal has a circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions), as of March 2013. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize 35 times.
Asahi Shimbun: The Asahi Shimbun is one of the five national newspapers in Japan and it takes the eighth place on the list of most read newspapers. The newspaper had an association with the International Herald Tribune, which is owned by The New York Times. In 2010, the partnership was dissolved due to unprofitability and the Asahi S
The Times of India: Ninth on the list is The Times of India, the Indian English-language daily newspaper. As per Audit Bureau of Circulations, TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspapers in the world, across all formats (broadsheet, tabloid, compact, Berliner and online). While as per the Indian Readership Survey 2012, the TOI is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of 76.43 lakhs (7.643 million), making it the top English daily in India by readership. The newspaper is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family.
Daily Telegraph:Rounding off the ten the place on the list is The Daily Telegraph, a daily morning broadsheet newspaper, published in London and distributed throughout the UK and internationally. The newspaper was founded in 1855 by Arthur B. Sleigh as The Daily Telegraph and Courier, and since 2004 has been owned by David and Frederick Barclay. The newspaper had an average daily circulation of 5, 52,065 earlier this year. It is the sister paper of The Sunday Telegraph and is run separately with a different editorial staff, but the two titles share a website.
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