This is a list of newspapers in Colorado. According to the Library of Congress, over 2,500 newspapers have been published in Colorado. The first documented newspaper was the Rocky Mountain Gold Reporter and Mountain City Herald, which was published by T. Gibson in 1859 in Mountain City, Colorado. Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published in Colorado) Larger newspapers (listed by total average paid daily circulation as of 30 September 2012 as compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations):<includeonly> This is a list of daily newspapers currently published in Colorado. For weekly newspapers, see List of newspapers in Colorado. And this is only as of 2012</includeonly> The Denver Post (412,669) — Denver The Gazette (64,394) — Colorado Springs Daily Camera (40,483) — Boulder The Pueblo Chieftain (35,793) — Pueblo The Daily Sentinel (23,602) — Grand Junction Daily Times-Call (20,820) — Longmont The Coloradoan (19,530) — Fort Collins Reporter-Herald (19,024) — Loveland The Durango Herald (7,710) — Durango Cañon City Daily Record'' (5,271) — Cañon City Smaller newspapers Ag Journal Online — La Junta Akron News-Reporter — Akron (weekly) Aspen Daily News — Aspen The Aspen Times - Aspen Aurora Sentinel — Aurora Bent County Democrat — Las Animas Berthoud Weekly Surveyor — Berthoud BizWest — Boulder Boulder Weekly — Boulder (weekly) Brighton Standard Blade — Brighton Broomfield Enterprise — Broomfield (semi-weekly) Brush News-Tribune — Brush (weekly) Burlington Record — Burlington (weekly) Canyon Courier — Conifer (weekly) Center Post Dispatch — Center The Castle Pines Connection — Castle Pines (monthly) The Chaffee County Times — Buena Vista The Chronicle-News — Trinidad Colorado Daily — Boulder Colorado Hometown Weekly — east Boulder County (free weekly) The Colorado Springs Business Journal — Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Independent — Colorado Springs (weekly) Colorado Sun — Colorado (on-line) Commerce City Sentinel Express — Commerce City The Conejos County Citizen — Conejos County The Craig Press — Craig The Crested Butte News — Crested Butte The Crystal Valley Echo — Marble, Colorado Delta County Independent — Delta Denver Business Journal — Denver The Denver North Star — Denver Douglas County Business Magazine — Parker Douglas County News-Press — Castle Rock Dove Creek Press — Dove Creek, Dolores County The Durango Telegraph — Durango Eagle Valley Enterprise — Eagle Estes Park Trail-Gazette — Estes Park (weekly) The Flume: The Park County Republican & Fairplay Flume — Bailey and Fairplay Fort Lupton Press — Fort Lupton Fort Morgan Times