A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the oldest and most widely respected newspapers in the world. The number and trend of "newspapers of record by reputation" is related to the state of press freedom and political freedom in a country.
The New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan; some meanings of the term originated in reference to The New York Times.
Paris headquarters of Le Figaro, France's centre-right newspaper of record (public record and by reputation)
First edition of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (1780), the world's oldest newspaper of record by reputation
The former headquarters of El Nacional, Venezuela's long-standing newspaper of record, which was seized by the state in 2018 and forced out of newsprint production
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns.
A girl reading a 21 July 1969 copy of The Washington Post reporting on the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, 1918
Title page of Johann Carolus' Relation from 1609, the first newspaper
Josef Danhauser's portrait Newspaper readers, 1840
