has gloss | eng: This is a list of the top 100 newspapers in the United States by daily circulation for the six month period ending September 30, 2009. These figures are compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. | class="wikitable sortable" |- valign=bottom ! !! Newspaper !! City !! State !! Daily Circulation !! Owner |- |1 | |New York |New York |2,024,269 |News Corporation |- |2 |USA Today |McLean |Virginia |1,900,116 |Gannett Company |- |3 | |New York |New York |927,851 |The New York Times Company |- |4 |Los Angeles Times |Los Angeles |California |657,467 |Tribune Company |- |5 | |Washington |District of Columbia |582,844 |The Washington Post Company |- |6 |Daily News |New York |New York |544,167 |Daily News |- |7 |New York Post |New York |New York |508,042 |News Corporation |- |8 |Chicago Tribune |Chicago |Illinois |465,892 |Tribune Company |- |9 |Houston Chronicle |Houston |Texas |384,419 |Hearst Corporation |- |10 |/Philadelphia Daily News |Philadelphia |Pennsylvania |361,480 |Philadelphia Media Holdings |- |11 |Newsday |Melville |New York |357,124 |Cablevision |- |12 | |Denver |Colorado |340,949 |MediaNews Group |- |13 | |Phoenix |Arizona |316,874 |Gannett Company |- |14 |Star Tribune... |