The Press and Journal

Scotland, 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 its daily run. It serves the north and the Highlands from Aberdeen, under D. C. Thomson of Dundee since 2006, and has been a compact rather than a broadsheet since 2012. For a reader who wants a regional paper with deep roots outside the big capitals, it is the natural Scottish pick.