Zimbabwe is host to some of the oldest newspapers in Africa; The Herald, Zimbabwe's major newspaper, replaced the Mashonaland and Zambesian Times, which was present from the late 1890s. The Herald has seen a decline in readership from 132,000 to between 50,000 and 100,000 in recent years.Press Reference: Zimbabwe, accessed November 29, 2008. The influential Daily News, which regularly published criticism of the government, was shut down in 2002, however its director Wilf Mbanga started The Zimbabwean soon after to continue challenging the Mugabe regime. The first daily independent Zimbabwean daily newspaper, following Daily News, NewsDay, started publishing in 2010. Journalists can be fired by the Ministry of Information if content is deemed inappropriate."Press Freedom Index" . Reporters Without Borders. Other notable Zimbabwean newspapers in print include The Chronicle, The Financial Gazette, the Zimbabwe Independent, and the Zimbabwe Daily News.
Daily newspapers
NewspaperFounded Location Ownership Circulation TypeLanguageThe Anchor2019HararePrivateDailyEnglishBusiness WeeklyPrivateWeeklyEnglishThe Chronicle1894BulawayoGovernmentDailyEnglishDaily News1999HararePrivate100,000+DailyEnglishThe Financial GazetteHararePrivate50,000+WeeklyEnglishThe Harare Tribune2001HararePrivateOnline dailyEnglishThe Herald1892HarareGovernment50,000+DailyEnglishKwayedzaHarareGovernmentWeeklyShonaThe Manica PostMutareGovernmentEnglishThe Midlands ObserverKwekweGovernmentEnglish, NdebeleNewsDay2010HararePrivateDailyEnglishHarare Mirror2023HararePrivateDailyEnglishNews Report Zimbabwe2018HararePrivateWeeklyEnglishSouthern Eye2013HararePrivateDailyEnglishThe StandardHararePrivateWeeklyEnglishThe Sunday MailHarareGovernmentWeeklyEnglishuMthunywaBulawayoGovernmentWeeklyNdebeleDailyTimes ZimbabweHararePrivate Online dailyEnglishZimbabwe Daily News2004PrivateOnline dailyEnglishZimbabwe IndependentHararePrivateWeeklyEnglishThe Zimbabwe Mail2003HararePrivateDailyEnglishZimbabwe Metro2007Gaborone, BotswanaPrivateOnline dailyEnglishZimbabwe Telegraph2008PrivateDailyEnglishZimbabwe Tribune2009PrivateOnline dailyEnglishThe Zimbabwean2005PrivateWeeklyEnglish
Defunct newspapers
British South Africa Company Government Gazette (1894–1923) The Central African Examiner (1957–1965) Evening Standard (until 1962), merged into The Herald The Gatooma Mail The Gweru Times (1895–2015) Mashonaland Herald and Zambesian Times (1891–1892), succeeded by The Rhodesia Herald Masvingo Star (ceased publication 2015) The National Observer The Northern Optimist (1894–1895), succeeded by The Gweru Times Pungwe News (ceased publication 2015) Rhodesian Advertiser
See also
Media of Zimbabwe
References