Diário de Notícias was first published in Lisbon on 29 December 1864 by Tomás 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 Eça 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 RevolutionDiário de Notícias belonged to the Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, a propaganda arm of the dictatorship.[4] Following the Carnation Revolution, the paper remained nationalized until the early 1990s.[4] Then the paper and Jornal de Notícias 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]
Diário de Notícias is published in tabloid format.[9]Music criticJoaquim de Seabra Pessoa [pt], father of poet Fernando Pessoa, worked for the paper. In 2018 Diário de Notícias became a weekly newspaper published on Saturdays.
In the period of 1995–1996 Diário de Notícias 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.[12] The circulation of the paper was 44,055 copies in 2002.[13] It was 54,000 copies in 2003[9] and 45,015 copies in 2004.[13] 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]
Diário de Notícias 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.[citation needed]
DN Negócios (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.
^ abAnabela Carvalho (2010). "Portugal: Media System"(PDF). The International Encyclopedia of Communication.
^ ab"World Press Trends"(PDF). World Association of Newspapers. Paris. 2004. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
^Wheeler, Douglas L.; Opello, Walter C. Jr. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Portugal (3rd ed.). The Scarecrow Press. p. 189. ISBN978-0810860889. The major Lisbon newspapers are Didrio de Noticias (daily and newspaper of record) ....
^Eaman, Ross (2009). The A to Z of Journalism. The Scarecrow Press. p. 237. ISBN978-0810871540. The most prestigious newspaper for print journalists is the Diario de noticias, Portugal's "newspaper of record", followed by the more popular Jornal de noticias and the staunchly independent Publico.