After selling out the first issue, Gannett gradually expanded the national distribution of the paper, reaching an estimated circulation of 362,879 copies by the end of 1982, double the amount of sales that Gannett projected. metropolitan areas, for a newsstand price of 25¢ (equivalent to 70¢ in 2020). USA Today began publishing on September 15, 1982, initially in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Gannett announced the launch of the paper on April 20, 1982.

At launch, Neuharth was appointed president and publisher of the newspaper, adding those responsibilities to his existing position as Gannett's chief executive officer. Gannett's board of directors approved the launch of the national newspaper, titled USA Today, on December 5, 1981. The two proposed design layouts were mailed to newsmakers and prominent leaders in journalism for review and feedback. On June 11, 1981, Gannett printed the first prototypes of the proposed publication. Early regional prototypes included East Bay Today, an Oakland, California-based publication published in the late 1970s to serve as the morning edition of the Oakland Tribune, an afternoon newspaper which Gannett owned at the time. The genesis of USA Today was on February 29, 1980, when a company task force known as 'Project NN' met with Gannett chairman Al Neuharth in Cocoa Beach, Florida, to develop a national newspaper. ( June 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. This section contains content that is written like an advertisement. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and an international edition is distributed in Asia, Canada, Europe, and the Pacific Islands. It has been shown to maintain a generally center-left audience, in regards to political persuasion. With an average print circulation of 159,233 as of 2022, a digital-only subscriber base of 504,000 as of 2019, and an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million, USA Today is ranked third by circulation on the list of newspapers in the United States. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, USA Today operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. USA Today (stylized in all uppercase ) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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