most popular newspaper in the world

The Chosun Ilbo is one of the major newspapers in South Korea. With a daily circulation of over 2,200,000, the Chosun Ilbo has undertaken annual inspections since the Audit Bureau of Circulations was established in 1993. Chosun Ilbo and its subsidiary company, Digital Chosun operates the Chosun.com news website, which also publishes web versions of the newspaper in English, Chinese, and Japanese.Chosun.com is ranked as the No.1 Korean news website by the Internet survey company Rankey.com.

The Wall Street Journal is an American English language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. It is published six days a week in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal.The Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, it has a circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions), as of March 2013, compared with USA Todays 1.7 million. Its main rival in the business newspaper sector is the London based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions.The Journal primarily covers American economic and international business topics, and financial news and issues. Its name derives from Wall Street, located in New York City, which is the heart of the financial district; it has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty four times, including 2007 prizes for its reporting on backdated stock options and the adverse effects of Chinas booming economy.

The Peoples Daily is a daily newspaper in China. The paper is an official newspaper of the government of China, published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese language edition, it has editions in English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Tibetan, Kazakh, Uyghur, Zhuang, Mongolian, Korean and other minority languages in China. Similar to Pravdas relationship with the Soviet Union, the newspaper provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the government. It claims itself to be elected by UNESCO as one of the 10 most authoritative and most influential newspapers of the world.

The Dong A Ilbo is the leading newspaper in Korea since 1920 with daily circulation of more than 1.2 million and opinion leaders as its main readers.The Dong A Ilbo is the parent company of Dong A Media Group (DAMG), which is composed of 11 affiliates including Sports Dong A, Dong A Science, DUNet, and dongA.com, as well as Channel A, general service cable broadcasting company launched in December 1, 2011. It covers variety of areas including news, drama, entertainment, sports, education, and movies 24 hours a day.The Dong A Ilbo has partnered with international news companies such as The New York Times of the United States of America, The Asahi Shimbun of Japan and The Peoples Daily of China. It has correspondents stationed in five major cities worldwide including Washington D.C., New York, Beijing, Tokyo and Paris. It also publishes global editions in 90 cities worldwide including New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt.

Malayala Manorama is a daily morning newspaper, in Malayalam language, published from Kottayam in the state of Kerala, India by Malayala Manorama Company Limited. It was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 20 million (with a circulation base of over 2.1 million copies). The Malayalam title manorama roughly translates to entertainer.According to World Association of Newspapers, as of 2011, it holds a position as top 11th most circulating newspaper in the world. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) 2013 figures, it is the fourth largest circulating newspapers in India (behind Dainik Bhaskar, The Times of India and Dainik Jagran) and largest circulating newspaper in Kerala.

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdoms second biggest selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The Daily Mail was Britains first daily newspaper aimed at the newly literate lower middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks, and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britains biggest selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of News of the World in July 2011. Its sister paper, the Daily Mail, was launched in 1896.It is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust, but the editorial staff are entirely separate from the Daily Mail. It had an average daily circulation of 1,555,977 in March 2014. In July 2011, with the closure of the News of the World, The Mail on Sunday sold some 2.5 million copies a week but by September that had fallen back to just under 2 million.

Hindustan Dainik or Hindustan is published by Hindustan Media Ventures Limited. Earlier it was part of HT Media Ltd group, which spun off its Hindi business into a separate company named Hindustan Media Ventures Limited in December 2009. It ranks as the third largest read daily in the country. Hindustan has 19 editions across the Hindi belt. They are spread across Delhi, Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani). Apart from these, the paper is also available in key towns like Mathura, Saharanpur, Faizabad.In Delhi plus NCR, Hindustan is an undisputed No. 2 and has a rapidly growing even as the market is declining. Hindustan readership has grown to 120 L readers in Q4 11. As per Total Readership, Hindustan is No 2 with 385 L readers.Hindustan in addition to high quality reportage also aspires to become an ally to its readers in their quest for success. The ambition for the brand is to become the partner of progress for the youth in the Hindi belt.

USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it had previously held since 2003. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the paper has 1.8 million copies as of March 2012 compared with The Wall Street Journals 2.1 million though this figure includes the WSJs 400,000 paid for, online subscribers. USA Today remains the widest circulated print newspaper in the United States. USA Today is distributed in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, Canada and the United Kingdom. The newspaper has its headquarters in the Tysons Corner area of Fairfax County, Virginia. USA Today sells for US $2 in newsstands, although it is often found free at hotels and airports that distribute it to their customers.

Eenadu is an Indian Telugu language daily newspaper which is the largest circulated Telugu newspaper in Andhra Pradesh and in Telangana, India. According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) Q1 2012, Eenadu ranks No. 6 among the regional languages dailies with a Total Readership (TR) of 5,906,000. Eenadu (meaning Today in Telugu) was founded by the Indian media baron Ramoji Rao in 1974. Eenadus rapid expansion enabled diversification of its portfolio by venturing into other markets such as finance and chit funds (Margadarsi chits), foods (Priya Foods), film production (Usha Kiran Films), film distribution (Mayuri Films), and a group of television channels (ETV). All the businesses are organized under Ramoji Group.