It ranks in the top 50 largest-circulation newspapers in the United States, with an average weekday circulation of 255,452. DenverPost.com receives 4.6 million monthly unique visitors accessing 29 million pages, including 1.8 million mobile page views per month.

The Denver Post is the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc., founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder. MediaNews is today one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non-daily publications in 13 states. MediaNews bought The Denver Post from the Times Mirror Co. on Dec. 1, 1987. Times Mirror had bought the paper from the heirs of founder Frederick Gilmer Bonfils in 1980.