How many daily circulation newspapers are there in the United States?

Answer 1

Good question.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper#E...
leads you to Newspaper Association of America which has:
http://www.naa.org/thesource/ "The Source - Newspapers by the Numbers"
http://www.naa.org/thesource/14.asp#numb...

which says "Number of U.S. Daily Newspapers"
2006 Total (morning & Evening): 1437

and even gives a breakdown by size of circulation.
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My first response was: NYT, WaPo, USA Today, Chicago HT, LA Times, CSMonitor...

Depends on what you mean as a newspaper -
McClatchy and Gannett corporations have bought up a lot of local titles, where you'll find the national coverage is syndicated and they just add some local stuff.

There are also old-style independent titles.