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Newspaper of record

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.[1][2]

For the horse, see Newspaperofrecord.

It may also be a newspaper authorized to publish public or legal notices, thus serving as a newspaper of public record. A newspaper whose editorial content is directed by the state can be referred to as an official newspaper of record, but the lack of editorial independence means that it is not a "newspaper of record by reputation". Newspapers of record by reputation that focus on business can also be called newspapers of financial record.[1][2]

Zimbabwe's , lost its status as an established newspaper of record when it was eventually taken over by Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.[165]

The Herald

Venezuela's newspaper of record, El Nacional, was forced out of print by the state in 2018, and its headquarters was given to a high-ranking official.[22]

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London-based newspaper of record, Al-Hayat, ceased in 2020 due to financial and political pressures.[166][167]

pan-Arab

In Cambodia, the administration forced both of Cambodia's newspapers of record out of business using contrived tax fines that resulted in the closure of The Cambodia Daily in 2017,[168][169] and the sale of The Phnom Penh Post to a close ally of the Hun Sen administration in 2018.[170][171]

Hun Sen

Latvian newspaper saw its established status as a newspaper of record diminish after a 2010 takeover, with the Historical Dictionary of Latvia (2017) listing it as "holding tenuously to a popular newspaper-of-record sentiment at home and abroad" due to "questions of ownership and if said owners influence newspaper content".[172]

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Freedom of the press

Grupo de Diarios América

List of national newspapers

List of government gazettes