List of newspapers in Malta

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This is a list of newspapers published in Malta.

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Title	Published	Language	Established	Owner	Political affiliation	Notes
In-Nazzjon	Daily	Maltese	1970	Media.link Communications (Nationalist Party)	Nationalist Party	Organ of the Nationalist Party. Formerly In-Nazzjon Tagħna and In-…Taghna^[1]^[2]
L-Orizzont	Daily	Maltese	1962	Union Print Co. (General Workers' Union)	Malta Labour Party	Organ of the General Workers' Union
The Malta Independent, The Malta Independent on Sunday	Daily	English	1992	Standard Publications	Nationalist Party
Times of Malta, Sunday Times of Malta	Daily	English	1935	Allied Newspapers	Nationalist Party	Established in 1929 as Times of Malta Weekly
Malta Today, Malta Today on Sunday	Biweekly	English	1999	Media Today	Malta Labour Party and Democratic Alternative
Corriere di Malta	Daily	Italian	2017	Fortissimo Ltd
Illum	Weekly	Maltese		Media Today	Malta Labour Party and Democratic Alternative
Kullħadd	Weekly	Maltese	1992	Malta Labour Party	Malta Labour Party	Organ of the Malta Labour Party
Business Today	Weekly	English		Media Today
Il-Mument	Weekly	Maltese	1970	Media.link Communications (Nationalist Party)	Nationalist Party	Organ of the Nationalist Party
It-Torċa	Weekly	Maltese		Union Print Co. (General Workers' Union)	Malta Labour Party	Organ of the General Workers' Union
Il-Leħen	Weekly	Maltese	1928 as Leħen is-Sewwa^[3]	(Catholic Action) Malta	Catholic Church
Il-Gens	Weekly	Maltese	1920s as Il-Hajja^[4]^: 29		Catholic Church
Malta Government Gazette		Maltese English	1813	Department of Information (Government of Malta)		Formerly also in Italian

Defunct newspapers

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Title	Published	Language	Established	Defunct	Political affiliation	Notes
Journal de Malte	intermittent	French Italian	1798	1798	French republicanism	First newspaper ever published in Malta
Foglio d'Avvisi		Italian	1803	1804	Pro-British	First newspaper published under British rule
L'Argo		Italian	1804	1804	Pro-British
Il Cartaginese		Italian	1804	1810^[4]^: 10	Pro-British
Giornale di Malta		Italian	1812	1813	Pro-British
Lo Spettatore Imparziale	monthly	Italian	23 April 1838	pre-1899^[5]	Pro-British; edited by Canon Fortunato^[4]^: 11 (or Francesco) Panzavecchia^[6]
Portafoglio Maltese	weekly biweekly	Italian	May 1838	post-1899^[5]	Conservative^[7]	Political and religious; established by lawyer Paolo Sciortino^[8]
Il Mediterraneo - Gazzetta di Malta		Italian	1838	1874	Liberal, secular, pro-Italian^[4]^: 14	established by Zauli-Sajani and Carlo Cigognani Cappelli^[9]
The Harlequin		English	1838 ?	pre-1899^[5]		^[10]
II Corriere maltese		Italian	1839	pre-1899^[5]	Liberal, anti-Borbonic	Established by Salvatore Costanzo^[11]
L'Aristide		Italian	1840s	pre-1899^[5]	Liberal, anti-Borbonic	Established by Salvatore Costanzo^[11]
L'Eco dei Tribunali di Malta		Italian	1843	pre-1899^[5]		^[4]^: 12
Malta Times	weekly	English	1840s	pre-1899^[5]		^[4]^: 12
L'Indipendente		Italian	1850s	pre-1899^[5]		^[4]^: 9
L'Economista di Malta		Italian	1876		Business^[4]
Malta - Quotidiano Nazionalista (Gazzetta Maltese)	daily	Italian	1883	1943	Pro-Italian, edited by Fortunato Mizzi, Enrico Mizzi
Daily Malta Chronicle and Garrison Gazette	weekly daily	English	1884	1940	Pro-British
Lloyd Maltese	daily	Italiano	pre-1899	1940	Business	Published by the Chamber of Commerce^[5]
Il Habbar Il Habbar Malti Il Habbar Cattolicu		Maltese	pre-1899		Conservative	Political, religious^[5] Edited by Antonio Muscat Fenech^[12]
Malta Standard	biweekly	English	pre-1899		Pro-British	^[5]
Public Opinion		English	pre-1899			^[5]
Risorgimento	daily	Italian	pre-1899		Pro-Italian	Political, business^[5]
Avvisatore		Italian	ca.1900			^[4]
Il Ghannej		Maltese	ca.1900			^[4]^: 21–22
The Enterprise		English	ca.1900			Business^[4]^: 21–22
Il Bon Pastur		Maltese	ca.1900			Religious^[4]^: 21–22
Malta Army and Navy Gazette		English	ca.1900			Military^[4]^: 21–22
La Chitarra		Italian	ca.1900			Musical^[4]^: 21–22
Il Ghafrit		Maltese	ca.1900			^[4]^: 21–22
Finanza e Commercio		Maltese	ca.1900			Business^[4]^: 21–22
San Paul		Maltese	ca.1900			Religious^[4]^: 21–22
Lo Studente		Italian	ca.1900			^[4]^: 21–22
Il Biricchino al Teatro		Italian	ca.1900			Theatre^[4]^: 21–22
L'Afrique Maltaise		French	ca.1900			^[4]^: 21–22
La Rivista Medica		Italian	ca.1900			Medicine^[4]^: 21–22
Il Naturalista Maltese		Italian	ca.1900			Nature^[4]^: 21–22
Youth		English	ca.1900			Youth^[4]^: 21–22
Propagazjoni tal Fidi		Maltese	ca.1900			Religious^[4]^: 21–22
La Salute Publica		Italian	ca.1900			Public health^[4]^: 21–22
Philatelic		English	ca.1900			Philatelic^[4]^: 21–22
Il Habbar Ghawdxi		Maltese	ca.1900			Gozo news^[4]^: 21–22
Malta Football Record Book		English	ca.1900			Football^[4]^: 21–22
Athenaeum Melitense		Italian (?)	ca.1900			Arts and literature^[4]^: 21–22
Il-Ħaddiem / The Worker		Maltese / English	ca.1900	post-1960s		Trade unions^[4]^: 21–22
Archivum Melitense		?	ca.1900			Philatelic^[4]^: 21–22
Ir Rusariu Imkaddes		Maltese	ca.1900			Religious^[4]^: 21–22
Il Calcio		Italian	ca.1900			Football^[4]^: 21–22
Bollettino della Societa' Economico Agraria		Italian	ca.1900			Agri-business^[4]^: 21–22
The Teacher		English	ca.1900			Teaching matters^[4]^: 21–22
Malta Letteraria	monthly	Italian	1904	1914	Issued by Giovine Malta. The first 10 volumes (1904-1913) were edited by Arturo Mercieca and the eleventh (1914) by Enrico Mizzi^[13]
Giahan		Maltese	ca.1900			^[4]^: 21–22
L-Hmar		Maltese	ca.1900			Political (including satire)
Is-Salib		Maltese	ca.1900		Religious/conservative^[4]^: 20
II-Habib		Maltese	ca.1900		Religious/conservative^[4]^: 20
II-Poplu Malti		Maltese	ca.1900			first important Nationalist paper in Maltese^[14]
Malta Ghada Taghna		Maltese	ca.1900		Sigismondo Savona's^[14]
Il-Bandiera tal-Maltin		Maltese	ca.1900	Manwel Dimech's^[14]
In-Nahla		Maltese	ca.1900		Agostino Levanzin's^[4]^: 21
Malta Maltia!		Maltese	ca.1900		^[4]^: 21
Il Progress		Maltese	1921	1932	Stricklandian^[4]^: 22
Malta Letteraria (nuova serie)	monthly	Italian	1926	1939		edited by Giovanni Curmi as "rassegna mensile di cultura".^[4]^: 21–22^[15]^[13]
L'Eco di Malta e Gozo		Italian	1920s		Enrico Mizzi^[4]^: 22
Labour Opinion later: II Cotra		English Maltese	1920s		Malta Labour Party^[4]^: 22
Il Patria		Maltese	1920s		Ignazio Panzavecchia's^[4]^: 22
Il Berka		Maltese	1920s		^[4]^: 22
Ix-Xemx		Maltese	1920s		^[4]^: 22
Il-Helsien	daily weekly	Maltese		1992	Malta Labour Party	Former organ of the Malta Labour Party. Founded in 1959 as a successor to Is-Sebħ after its editor was imprisoned for criticising the British Governor-General Robert Laycock^[16]
Malta Letteraria (third series)	4-monthly	Italian	1952	1955		Literature^[15]
Malta Taghna		Maltese	1950s	1960s		Edited by Herbert Ganado^[4]^: 28
Is-Sebħ		Maltese	1950s		Malta Labour Party	Edited by Joe Micallef Stafrace who was imprisoned for criticising the British Governor-General Robert Laycock in a political cartoon.^[17] Briefly resurrected in the 1970s as a successor to the newspaper Iż-Żmien.
The Maltese Observer	weekly	English	1950s	1960s		Edited for some years by Tom Hedley, former editor of The Times of Malta^[4]^: 30
Ix-Xewka		Maltese	1965	1978	Malta Labour Party	Satirical left-wing newspaper

References

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"10 kurżitajiet dwar il-ġurnal In-Nazzjon". 30 June 2020.
[2]
"MaltaToday". archive.maltatoday.com.mt. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
[3]
"Il-Leħen".
[4]
Henry Frendo, Maltese Journalism 1838-1992. A historical overview, Press Club Publications 1994
[5]
Annuario d'Italia guida generale del Regno, 1899
[6]
"Lo spettatore imparziale ebbe inizio il 23 aprile 1838, diretto da Francesco Panzavecchia; il permesso fu concesso dal Governatore Bouverie, poco prima che si approvasse la legge, con lo scopo di diminuire l'agitazione politica (Laferla, 1938: 166)" Oliver Friggieri, L'attivita di autori esuli italiani a Malta durante il Risorgimento
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stefanolecchi
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thefreelibrary
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"Fra i giornali che dominavano l'opinione pubblica e che davano un grande contributo alia nuova presa di coscienza nazionale sempre nei limiti dei rapporti italo-maltesi c'era Il Mediterraneo, fondato da Zauli-Sajani e Carlo Cigognani Cappelli, e pubblicato tra il 1838 e il 1874. Molti dei profughi e poi diversi liberali maltesi che s'identificavano con il movimento italiano e cercavano di intravedere l'ispirazione a un movimento analogo maltese, collaborarono anonimamente al giornale. Fino a un certo periodo ne fu responsabile soltanto Zauli-Sajani, che spesso analizzava la situazione politica dell'Italia e la vita sociale e culturale di Malta"; Oliver Friggieri, L'attivita di autori esuli italiani a Malta durante il Risorgimento
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Ray Fabri, "Maltese", Langues et littératures modernes, Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, Année 2010 88-3 pp. 791-816
[11]
"Nell'aprile 1839 prendeva dimora nell'isola Salvatore Costanzo, spedito dal Governo di Napoli come emissario incaricato di far uso della stampa con l'intento di costringere l'Inghilterra a revocame la concessione. Ma appena arrivato, Costanzo, insieme con Salvatore Tornabene, fondo un foglio, II Corriere maltese, che, a causa degli attacchi scagliati contro il Re di Napoli e la sua famiglia, svelo in poco tempo lo scopo reale dei due scrittori (Fiorentini, 1966: 47). Costanzo, scrittore teatrale, si dedico attivamente al giornalismo e fondo un secondo giornale, L'Aristide. La sua convinzione rivoluzionaria e evidente dalla definizione che d di Lamennais: "Lamennais nella Schiavitu moderna, nel Libro del popolo e in altre sue opere, sempre difende i diritti dei meschini dispotizzati, e grida contro l'arbitrarieta de' tempi" (Costanzo, 1841: 4). Costanzo, anzitutto, cerco di propagare a Malta il sentimento ribelle di cui era animato quando nel 1841 pubblico il libro Ragioni che mi spinsero ad emigrare dal proprio paese. "Oliver Friggieri, L'attivita di autori esuli italiani a Malta durante il Risorgimento
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"In 1901 the first important Nationalist paper in Maltese, II-Poplu Malti, sold more than the Savonian Malta Ghada Taghna, and about twice as much as Emmanuele Dimech's Il-Bandiera tal-Maltin. The manner of language and approach of such papers was generally less inhibited, or more explicit - all too explicit at times - than was the case with either the Italian or English language Maltese papers. Socially, culturally and politically they were of the utmost importance and began to unravel a dimension of Maltese social life which had hitherto not come out into the open so much or at all." Henry Frendo, Maltese Journalism 1838-1992. A historical overview, Press Club Publications 1994, p.21
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"Jailed for a cartoon at the time published in 'Is-Sebħ'". TVMnews.mt. 2019-01-05. Retrieved 2024-05-28.
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