Click on the map above to access an interactive map from Stanford University of the annual number of newspapers in the United States from 1690 to 2011. Here is a timeline of some selected years:
1690: 1 paper
1750: 24 papers
1800: 329
1850: 3,029
1890: 13,489
1900: 15,872
1920: 15,570
1950:13,632
2000: 13,690
2010: 13,670
Note that the "golden age" of newspapers was the period from about 1850 to 1890 when the number of papers increased more than four-fold from about 3,000 in 1850 to 13,489 by 1890, which is about the same number of papers as there are today (13,670).
HT: Stephen Dubner at the Freakonomics blog.
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