Carmarthen Journal

{{Short description|Welsh newspaper}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2014}}

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| circulation = 2,451

| circulation_date = 2023

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The Carmarthen Journal is a newspaper founded in 1810 in Wales and now based in Carmarthen, the county town of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The building housing the Carmarthen Journal asserts that the Carmarthen Journal is the oldest newspaper in Wales.

In 2012, Local World acquired ownership of Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20424474 "Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World"], BBC News, 21 November 2012.

Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised 1340 issues of the Carmarthen Journal (1810–1919) from the newspaper holdings of the National Library of Wales.{{Cite web|title = The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser|url = http://newspapers.library.wales/browse/3676375|website = Welsh Newspapers Online|accessdate = 29 November 2015}}