Portuguese weekly newspaper
Diario de Noticias
(
Portuguese pronunciation:
[?dja?ju
ð?
nu?tisj??]
) is a
Portuguese
weekly newspaper published in
Lisbon
, Portugal. Established since 1864, the paper is considered a
newspaper of record
for Portugal.
History and profile
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Diario de Noticias
was first published in Lisbon on 29 December 1864 by Tomas Quintino Antunes and Eduardo Coelho.
[1]
At its early phase the paper had no explicit political stance and financially relied on the advertisements.
[2]
Its headquarters is in Lisbon.
[3]
During the 1880s the novelist
Eca de Queiroz
, then stationed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in the Portuguese diplomatic service, contributed occasional "London letters" to the newspaper. Some of these were afterwards published in a book entitled
Cartas de Inglaterra
.
Before the
Carnation Revolution
Diario de Noticias
belonged to the Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, a propaganda arm of the dictatorship.
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Following the Carnation Revolution, the paper remained
nationalized
until the early 1990s.
[4]
Then the paper and
Jornal de Noticias
were sold to the
Lusomundo
group.
[4]
[5]
In 2005 the Controlinveste group bought the papers.
[6]
Both papers are now owned by Angolan media conglomerate
Global Media Group
(formerly Controlinveste Media).
[7]
[8]
Diario de Noticias
is published in tabloid format.
[9]
Music critic
Joaquim de Seabra Pessoa
[
pt
]
, father of poet
Fernando Pessoa
, worked for the paper. In 2018
Diario de Noticias
became a weekly newspaper published on Saturdays.
The paper is considered a
newspaper of record
for Portugal.
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[11]
Circulation
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In the period of 1995?1996
Diario de Noticias
had a circulation of 63,000 copies slightly down on its 1880s circulation and below its peak as a propaganda newspaper for the Estado Novo in the 1930s (circulation of 120,000 in mainland Portugal and an additional 70,000 in its colonies), making it the seventh best-selling newspaper and third best selling daily newspaper in the country.
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The circulation of the paper was 44,055 copies in 2002.
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It was 54,000 copies in 2003
[9]
and 45,015 copies in 2004.
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The circulation of the paper was 37,992 copies in 2005, 37,904 copies in 2006 and 37,759 copies in 2007.
[13]
Its 2008 circulation was 33,626 copies in 2008.
[8]
Diario de Noticias
sold 34,119 copies in 2011
[14]
and 29,054 copies in 2012.
[15]
By 2017 the circulation was down to less than 19,000 copies and the newspaper had undergone a change to a tabloid journalism relying on its online advertising and the
Angolan
media group that owns it to stay open.
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Supplements
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- Classificados DN
- Dinheiro Vivo
- 1864
- Non-existent supplements (nowadays):
- DNA
- DN Negocios
(changed its name to
DN Bolsa
then to
DN Economia
and in 2015 to
Dinheiro Vivo
which became a separate newspaper in 2016 and news site in 2017)
- Note
: It is understood by ≪Non-periodical fixed supplements≫ that those are proper supplements of the newspaper (and not edited by external people to the newspaper for the newspaper to publish it) though not published periodically.
See also
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References
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External links
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