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Srl No |
Name of the Newspaper |
Year of Publication |
Founder |
Place |
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1 |
Account of all distinguished and commemorable news (Originally in German Language). Regarded as first newspaper. |
1605 |
Johan Carolus |
Strasburg |
|
2 |
Corrant out of Italy, Germany, etc’ (First English Language Newspaper) |
2nd December, 1620 |
Joris Veseler |
Amsterdam (Not in Britain) |
|
3 |
Weekly Newes from Italy, etc (Considered first published newspaper in Britain) |
23rd May, 1622 |
Nicholas Bourne and Thomas Archer |
Britain |
|
4 |
Incoming News |
1st July, 1650 |
--- |
Leipzig |
|
5 |
Oxford Gazette (English Language) **Became London Gazette in Fenruary 1666) |
November, 1665 |
|
England |
|
6 |
Publick Occurrences (first Colonial Newspaper) |
25th September, 1690 |
Benjamin Harris |
Boston, USA |
|
7 |
Daily Courant (England’s first daily newspaper) |
11th March, 1702 |
Edward and Elizabeth Mallet |
England |
|
8 |
Boston News-Letter (America’s first newspaper) |
April, 1704 |
John Campbell |
USA |
|
9 |
Pennsylvania Gazette |
1728 |
Benjamin Franklin |
USA |
|
10 |
Bengal Gazette (first newspaper in the Indian sub-continent) |
29th January, 1780 |
James Augustus Hicky (An Irishman) |
Kolkata, India |
|
11 |
The Times |
1st January, 1785 |
--- |
London |
|
12 |
Sydney Gazette (Australia’s first newspaper) |
1803 |
George Howe |
Australia |
|
13 |
Samachar Darpan (First Indian language newspaper weekly) |
1818 |
Serampore Baptist missionaries |
Serampore, India |
|
14 |
The Friend of India |
1818 |
Serampore Baptist missionaries |
Serampore, India |
|
15 |
The Calcutta Review |
1818 |
James Silk Buckingham |
Kolkata, India |
|
16 |
Brahmonical Magazine |
1821 |
Rammohan Roy |
Kolkata, India |
|
17 |
Mirat-ul-Akbar (Persian language) |
1822 |
Rammohan Roy |
Kolkata, India |
|
18 |
Bombay Samachar (Gujarati weekly) |
July, 1822 |
Fardunjee Marzban |
Mumbai, India |
|
19 |
Udant Martand (first Hindi newspaper in India) |
30th May, 1826 |
Jugal Kishore Shukla |
Kolkata, India |
|
20 |
Sambad Prabhakar |
28th January, 1831 |
Ishwar Chandra Gupta |
Kolkata, India |
|
21 |
The East Indian |
1831 |
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio |
Kolkata, India |
|
22 |
The Times of India |
3rd November, 1838 |
--- |
Mumbai, India |
|
23 |
New York Tribune |
1841 |
Horace Greeley |
USA |
|
24 |
Tattavabodhini Patrika |
1843 |
---- |
Kolkata |
|
25 |
The Strait Times (English language newspaper) |
July, 1845 |
--- |
Singapore |
|
26 |
Rangapur Barttabaha (First newspaper weekly) |
1847 | Gurucharan Sharma Roy (first editor). Financial support was given by Kalichandra Ray |
Bangladesh |
|
27 |
The New York Times |
September, 1851 |
--- |
USA |
|
28 |
Hindu Patriot (weekly newspaper) |
January, 1853 |
--- |
Kolkata, India |
|
29 |
Samachar Sudha Varshan (first Hindi daily in India) |
June, 1854 |
--- |
Kolkata, India |
|
30 |
Somprakash (Bengali weekly) |
15th November, 1858 |
Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan |
Kolkata, India |
|
31 |
The Pioneer (English language newspaper) |
1865 |
George Allen *Rudyard Kipling worked as Assistant Editor of the paper |
Allahabad, India |
|
32 |
Amrita Bazar Patrika |
20th February, 1868 |
--- |
Kolkata, India |
|
33 |
La Nacion (The Nation, a Spanish daily newspaper) |
1870 |
Bartolome Mitre Martinez |
Argentina |
|
34 |
Sulabh Samachar (Bengali weekly) |
1870 |
Keshub Chandra Sen |
Kolkata, India |
|
35 |
Bangadarshan (monthly literary journal) |
1872 |
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay |
Kolkata, India |
|
36 |
The Civil and Military Gazette |
1872 |
***Rudyard Kipling worked as Assistant Editor between 1882 to 1887 |
British India |
|
37 |
The Statesman |
1875 |
Robert Knight |
Kolkata, India |
|
38 |
Al-Ahram |
1875 |
--- |
Egypt |
|
39 |
The Washington Post |
1877 |
--- |
Washington DC |
|
40 |
The Hindu *Started as English language weekly. Became a daily from April 1889. |
20th September, 1878 |
--- |
Chennai |
|
41 |
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese language daily) |
25th January, 1879 |
--- |
Japan |
|
42 |
The Bengalee |
1879 |
Surendranath Banerjea |
Kolkata, India |
|
43 |
Times of India weekly edition **Renamed as Illustrated Weekly of India in 1923 |
1880 |
--- |
--- |
|
44 |
The Tribune (English language) |
February, 1881 |
Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia |
Lahore |
|
45 |
Kesari (Marathi newspaper) |
1881 |
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Maharashtra |
|
46 |
Malayala Manorama (Malayalam language) |
1890 |
--- |
Kottayam |
|
47 |
Daily Mail *First British daily to achieve mass circulation |
1896 |
Alfred Harmsworth |
Britan |
|
48 |
Udbodhan *Bengali mouthpiece of Ramkrishna Math |
1899 |
Swami Vivakananda |
Kolkata, India |
|
49 |
Ishkra (political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants) |
December, 1900 |
--- |
Stuttgart, Russia |
|
50 |
Indian opinion |
June, 1903 |
Mahatma Gandhi |
South Africa |
|
51 |
The Indian Sociologist |
1905 |
Shyamji Krishnavarma |
London |
|
52 |
Jugantar (Radical Bengali weekly) |
12th March, 1906 |
Bhupendranath Dutta |
Kolkata |
|
53 |
Bande Mataram (English language
weekly) |
6th August, 1906 |
Bipin Chandra Pal |
Kolkata, India |
|
54 |
Siraj-ul-Akhbar (First Newspaper
in Afganistan) |
January, 1906 |
--- |
Afganistan |
|
55 |
Modern Review |
1907 |
Ramananda Chatterjee |
Kolkata, India |
|
56 |
Pravda |
1908 |
--- |
Russia |
|
57 |
The Leader |
1909 |
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya and
C.Y. Chintamani |
Allahabad, India |
|
58 |
Bombay Chronicle (English language
newspaper) |
1910 |
Sir Pherozeshah Mehta |
Mumbai |
|
59 |
Al-Hilal |
1912 |
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
Kolkata |
|
60 |
Dainik Basumati Patrika |
1914 |
-- |
Kolkata |
|
61 |
Young India (English weekly) |
1919 |
Mahatma Gandhi |
|
|
62 |
Aaj (Hindi daily) |
1920 |
Shiv Prasad Gupta |
Varanasi |
|
63 |
People’s Observer (Official organ
of NAZI party) first as a weekly, then daily |
1920 |
-- |
Germany |
|
64 |
Labour Monthly |
1921 |
Rajani Palme Dutt |
--- |
|
65 |
Reader’s Digest |
1922 |
-- |
--- |
|
66 |
Anandabazar Patrika (Bengali daily
newspaper) |
1922 |
Kolkata |
|
|
67 |
The Socialist (English weekly) |
1922 |
S.A. Dange |
Mumbai |
|
68 |
Time (weekly news magazine) |
1923 |
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|
69 |
Indian Express |
1931 |
Perumal Varadarajulu Naidu |
Chennai |
|
70 |
Harijan |
1933 |
Mahatma Gandi |
|
|
71 |
Newsweek , American weekly
magazine |
1933 |
New York |
|
|
72 |
Jugantar |
1937 |
Sister concern of Amrita Bazar
Patrika |
Kolkata |
|
73 |
National Herald |
1938 |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
|
|
74 |
Forward Bloc (Political weekly) |
1939 |
Subhas Chandra Bose |
Kolkata |
|
75 |
Assam Tribune |
1939 |
-- |
Guwahati, Assam |
|
76 |
Nabayug |
1940 |
A K Fazlul Huq |
Kolkata |
|
77 |
Dawn (mouthpiece of Muslim League) |
1941 |
Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
New Delhi |
|
78 |
Dainik Jagran (Hindi daily) |
1942 |
Puranchandra Gupta |
Jhansi, UP, India |
|
79 |
Le Monde |
1944 |
-- |
Paris |
|
80 |
Ittefaq |
1953 |
Maulana A H Khan Bhasani |
Dhaka |
|
81 |
Granma |
1965 |
-- |
Cuba |
|
82 |
Ms. (Magazine to serve primarily
as a forum for women’s liberation) |
1972 |
-- |
-- |
|
83 |
India Today |
1975 |
Living Media Limited |
Mumbai |
|
84 |
China Daily (China’s first
national English language newspaper) |
1981 |
-- |
China |
|
85 |
China Daily Website |
1995 |
China’s first news website |
-- |
|
86 |
Kuensel (Initially an internal
government bulletin) |
2009 |
Bhutan |
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