A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent. Such publications are thus "newspa
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
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister pap
Newspaper of record
…to maintain a similar tone, coverage, style, and traditions; many are over a century old and some over two centuries old (e.g., Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Times, The Guardian, Le Figaro, and The Sydney Morning Herald). Newspapers of record by reputation can be respected for the accuracy and quality of their…
Front page, 19 October 2015
Front page of The Times from 4 December 1788
A wounded British officer reading The Times's report of the end of the Crimean War, in John Everett Millais' painting Peace Concluded
Frontpage weekly magazine The Times, 15 May 1940, with headline: "The old prime minister and the new".