Haarlems Dagblad

Netherlands, 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 merge with Haarlems Dagblad, and that merged paper claims to be the oldest newspaper in the world still in printed circulation. Treat that claim as a family tree rather than a single unbroken masthead. Today it is a regional daily for Haarlem, owned by the Belgian group Mediahuis.