The organization estimated that in 2018, total daily newspaper circulation in the United States, which includes both digital and print platforms, was 28.6 million for weekdays and 30.8 million for Sundays. Those figures were down 8 percent and 9 percent from the previous year.

The Times’s average print circulation in 2018 was about 487,000 on weekdays and 992,000 on Sundays, Mr. Cohen said. The Journal’s average circulation is just over one million, Ms. Schwartz said.

Coffee and macchiato drinkers at Starbucks shops in Manhattan had mixed reactions to the news.

“I think it should still be available,” Dustin Fitzharris said on Friday while sitting at the 15th Street and Seventh Avenue location. He suggested that perhaps some Starbucks customers want their news the old-fashioned way.

“Not everybody is on their computers,” Mr. Fitzharris said. “Especially for a certain age demographic. An older demographic may not come in with their iPad or their computer. They will come in with a book or want to read the paper.”

At the same location, David Perozzi said Starbucks made a good decision.

“I think it makes total sense; it’s not a surprise,” he said. “I don’t think there is any upside to keeping the paper. If you look around in this Starbucks, there’s no one buying a newspaper. It’s just another casualty of change. Another casualty of the internet.”

At least two customers said they had never seen newspapers at Starbucks.

“I’m in Starbucks every day in New Jersey and New York and I don’t feel like I see a lot of newspapers on display,” said Lisa Kelly, who was waiting for someone at the Eighth Avenue and 39th Street location.

She said that she usually goes to Starbucks once a day, sometimes twice, and that she would be inclined to read a newspaper if one were around.