Items26The creator’s order
  1. 1Post- och Inrikes TidningarPost- och Inrikes TidningarSweden, 1645 The strongest claim to the title of oldest newspaper still published. It began in 1645 as Ordinari Post Tijdender, launched on the state's initiative under Queen Christina and her chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. King Gustav III later gave the Swedish Academy the right to publish it, and…0
  2. 2Haarlems DagbladHaarlems DagbladNetherlands, 1656 (as Weeckelycke Courante van Europa) The Haarlem lineage starts in 1656 with a weekly published by Abraham Casteleyn and his wife Margaretha van Bancken, later known as the Oprechte Haerlemse Courant. During the German occupation in the Second World War the Courant was forced to…0
  3. 3Gazzetta di MantovaGazzetta di MantovaItaly, 1664 If the test is the same title, still printed and still carrying general news, Mantua's paper has a very strong case. It is widely described as the oldest newspaper still issued under its original name, and Italy marked its 350th anniversary in 2014 with a postage stamp showing the…0
  4. 4The London GazetteThe London GazetteUnited Kingdom, 1665 (as The Oxford Gazette) Born of the Great Plague. When the plague drove Charles II and his court out of London to the relative safety of Oxford, the Oxford Gazette appeared in November 1665, and when the court returned to the capital it became the London Gazette. It is an…0
  5. 5Berrow's Worcester JournalBerrow's Worcester JournalEngland, 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…0
  6. 6Wiener ZeitungWiener ZeitungAustria, 1703 (as the Wiennerisches Diarium) Launched on August 8, 1703, under the Habsburgs, the Vienna paper was for generations counted the oldest daily still in print. That run ended on June 30, 2023, after a law change cut the revenue it earned from printing official company notices. The…0
  7. 7Hildesheimer Allgemeine ZeitungHildesheimer Allgemeine ZeitungGermany, 1705 (as the Hildesheimer Relations-Courier) First published on June 24, 1705, this Lower Saxony daily is regarded as the oldest surviving newspaper in Germany. When the Wiener Zeitung gave up daily print in 2023, it named Hildesheim as the paper that takes over its old standing among…0
  8. 8Lloyd's ListLloyd's ListUnited Kingdom, 1734 A newspaper that grew out of a coffee house. Lloyd's List was providing weekly shipping news in London by 1734, a service begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee House. The picture shows the City of London plaque marking the coffee house's site, not the paper…0
  9. 9News LetterNews LetterNorthern Ireland, 1737 Belfast's first newspaper began after Francis Joy came by a small printing press in settlement of a debt, and it was first printed in Joy's Entry, a narrow alley in the city center. It is generally counted the oldest English-language general daily still in publication, a…0
  10. 10The Press and JournalThe Press and JournalScotland, 1747 (as Aberdeen's Journal) First published as a weekly, Aberdeen's Journal, on December 29, 1747, the paper became the Aberdeen Journal a year later and only turned daily in 1876. That history is why it can fairly call itself Scotland's oldest daily newspaper while being far older than…0