Most Americans would struggle to name a foreign-language news outlet published in the United States. Yet every day, millions of readers turn to them to understand the country they live in.
From Los Angeles to New York, publications in Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Korean, and dozens of other languages report on American politics, immigration, business, culture, and the everyday life of their communities. Some have been doing so for more than a century, carrying the stories of generations of immigrants. Others were born online, reaching audiences that extend far beyond the neighborhoods where those communities first took root.
Together, they form a parallel media landscape-deeply American, even when the news is not written in English.
Spanish: La Opinión and El Diario
Spanish-language journalism is the country’s largest non-English news market, though it is divided among communities with different national backgrounds and local interests.
La Opinión, founded in Los Angeles in 1926, receives 1.1 million website visits a month, according to Google Analytics data from May 2026. Most of its traffic comes from the United States, with additional readers in Mexico, Argentina, Spain and Colombia.
El Diario has been publishing in New York since 1913 and is considered the oldest continuously published Spanish-language daily in the continental United States.
Both are major names in Hispanic media, but neither dominates a market that includes Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American and South American audiences.
Chinese: World Journal
World Journal, or 世界日報, publishes editions for New York, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.
According to Google Analytics data from June 2026, receives 2.8 million readers viewed an average of about 5.6 pages per visit and spent approximately six minutes on the site, unusually strong engagement for a news publication.
Its coverage combines American and local news with reporting on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Its main competitors include Sing Tao Daily and China Press.
Italian: ilNewyorkese
ilNewyorkese is a newer publication built largely through digital distribution.
Based in New York, it reaches 2.1 million readers a month, according to data from Google Analytics from June 2026, and reaches about 6 million people each month through social media with less of 100.000 follower.
The publication has developed a different way of speaking to the Italian community, combining journalism with local events, charitable initiatives and audiovisual productions. It has attracted younger Italian Americans as well as a new generation of Italian immigrants, including professionals and entrepreneurs building their lives and businesses in the United States.
Its growth has come as several historic Italian-language publications have closed or reduced their publishing schedules. Its main competitors include La Voce di New York and L’Italo Americano with 635.000 readers and 157.000 readers.
Greek: Ethnikos Kirykas and The National Herald
Ethnikos Kirykas has published in Greek since 1915 and describes itself as the only daily Greek-language newspaper still operating in North America.
The publisher reports a daily print circulation of more than 40,000 copies. In 1997, it launched The National Herald, an English-language weekly aimed partly at younger Greek Americans who continued to follow the community but were less likely to read Greek.
The two publications now serve different generations of the same audience and receives 1.3 million website visits a month, according to Google Analytics data from June 2026.
Korean: Korea Daily
Korea Daily is one of the leading Korean-language newspapers in the United States, with editions serving major Korean-American communities including Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta.
The publication covers Korean-American life alongside politics, business and culture in South Korea. Korea Daily describes itself as the largest and most-read Korean media organization in the United States. Comparable first-party monthly readership figures were not publicly available at the time of writing. Korea Daily receive 3.8 million website visits a month, according to Google Analytics data from June 2026.
Vietnamese, Japanese and Polish newspapers
Người Việt Daily News, based in Orange County, California, is widely described as the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper published outside Vietnam.
Rafu Shimpo, founded in Los Angeles in 1903, is the country’s longest-running Japanese-American newspaper. Its archives cover more than a century of Japanese-American history, including immigration, wartime incarceration and the evolution of Little Tokyo.
In Chicago, Dziennik Związkowy, also known as the Polish Daily News, has covered Polish-American institutions, immigration and local affairs since 1908.
Maybe that’s the point. This country was built by people who never stopped reading in their own language. These papers are still keeping those communities informed, connected and visible, just somewhere most Americans do not think to look.
