World’s oldest paper now Web-only
From Editor’s Weblog comes news that on January 2, what is arguably the world’s oldest newspaper stopped publishing print editions and is now available on the Web only. The Swedish daily Post och Inrikes Tidningar (Post and Domestic Newspapers) has been publishing news announcements since the Swedish state started it in 1645 to cover foreign events from a Swedish perspective.
According to The Local, “at the end of the eighteenth century Gustaf III awarded the Swedish Academy the right to publish the newspaper. This principle still holds firm today, with the Academy’s permanent secretary Horace Engdahl currently holding the position of editor.”
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