Daily newspapers around the world

A newspaper here means the general-interest daily: a newsroom that tries to cover the whole of the day — politics, economy, crime, sport, culture — for a general readership, on a rhythm inherited from print even where the printing has largely stopped. It is the residual category in this directory, and deliberately so. Every other kind of outlet is defined by something narrower: a funding model (the public broadcaster), a wholesale customer (the news agency), a subject (the business daily), a page size (the tabloid), a medium (television) or a publishing cycle (the magazine). What is left over is the form that tries to be everything to everyone — which is why it is by far the largest group here, and why almost every country has one.

Because the general-interest daily exists in nearly every country in this directory, it is the only kind of outlet you can hold constant while you change the country. That makes it the natural unit for cross-border comparison: put two dailies from different countries side by side on a story that involves both, and the difference between them cannot be explained away by one being a wire service and the other a tabloid. Within a single country the useful comparison runs the other way — hold the country constant and vary the leaning, because two dailies from the same market usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space at all.

Of the 396 tracked here, Crosswire places 45 on the left, 310 near the centre and 41 on the right. This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. How leanings are classified. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-17.