Berrow's Worcester Journal

England, traced to 1690 (as the Worcester Post-Man) Worcester's paper bills itself as the oldest surviving newspaper in the world. By its own account it descends from the Worcester Post-Man, which Stephen Bryan founded in 1690 and published only irregularly at first, so read the date as the paper's proud claim rather than a settled fact. Harvey Berrow bought the paper in 1748, and from 1753 it carried his name. It became a free paper in 1987 and is still published today as a weekly tabloid owned by Newsquest, delivered free across central and southern Worcestershire and also offered as a free online edition.