The heyday of the newspaper industry was the 1940s, but the percentage of Americans reading newspapers began to decline with the increased competition from radio, television and, more recently, the Internet. A growing population helped the absolute circulation numbers continue to increase until the 1970s, where it remained stable until the 1990s, when absolute circulation numbers began declining.

Newspaper circulation numbers are reported to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Best-selling papers as of March 31, 2007 in the U.S.A., according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, are "USA Today", 2,524,965; "The Wall Street Journal", 2,068,439 and "The New York Times", 1,627,062.

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