newspaper

scheduled publication containing news of events, articles, features, editorials, and advertising; online, in print, or (usually) both
class product_category Q11032
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Summary

newspaper is a product category[1]. newspaper ranks in the top 3% of product category entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,129 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of publication[3]
  • Named after: gazzetta[4], time[5], news[6], day[7]
  • Made from material: paper[8]
  • Subclass of: periodical[9], goods[10], printed press[11], print-native publication[12], organization[13]
  • Part of: magazine & newspaper[14]
  • Commons category: Newspapers[15]
  • Unicode character: 📰[16], 🗞[17]
  • Has part(s): column[18], opinion piece[19], editorial[20], op-ed[21]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1605[22]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Newspapers[23]
  • Commons gallery: Newspapers[24]
  • Described by source: Vlastenský slovník historický[25], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[26], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[29], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[30], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[31], New International Encyclopedia[32], The New Student's Reference Work[33], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[34], Suggested Upper Merged Ontology[35], Pax Leksikon[36]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox newspaper[37], Template:Greek Newspapers[38]
  • Has characteristic: newspaper genre[39]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Newspaper[40], https://schema.org/Newspaper[41], http://bibliograph.net/Newspaper[42]
  • Different from: La gazzetta[43]
  • Properties for this type: P3912[44], P1476[45], P495[46], P407[47], P571[48], P159[49], P5769[50], P463[51], P2896[52], P1092[53], P123[54], P8507[55], P9258[56], P8110[57]

Why It Matters

newspaper has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[58] newspaper is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[59]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . Google Product Taxonomy. wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  38. [40] ↑ . Q138362428. wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . Schema.org. wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . Q141755932. wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [58] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [59] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Equivalent class: http://bibliograph.net/Newspaper"
  2. 4w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → periodical, good/s, printed press +2
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Subclass of: printed press, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect printed press → printed press ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q17172633_Q123"
  3. 10w ago · Wyslijp16 · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Online pwn encyclopedia id → 3904378
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Online pwn encyclopedia id: 3904378"
  4. 14w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → product category, type of publication
    Subclass of → periodical, good/s, printed press +2
    Part of → magazine & newspaper
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Determination method or standard: record linkage, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260983|batch #260983]]"
  5. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4BuFmQ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → newspapers
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: newspapers, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952489|newspapers (#289952489)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  7. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0237736-noviny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0237736-noviny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
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