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List of newspapers in Lebanon

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Hadiqat al-Akhbar (The News Garden in English) is the first daily newspaper of Lebanon which was launched in 1858.{{cite journal|title=State Control of Television News in 1990s Lebanon|journal=Annenberg School for Communication|year=1999|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/107769909907600306|author=Marwan M. Kraidy

|volume=76|issue=3|pages=485–498|doi=10.1177/107769909907600306|s2cid=144387260}} From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country.{{cite book|author=Meir Zamir|title=Lebanon's Quest: The Search for a National Identity, 1926-39|date=2000|page=257

|publisher=I.B.Tauris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hgGZPn1I4YC&pg=PA257|isbn=978-1-86064-553-2}} Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400.{{cite news|title=Many voices

|url=http://www.thebusinessyear.com/publication/article/2/46/lebanon-2012/many-voices|access-date=28 September 2014

|work=The Business Year|year=2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084546/http://www.thebusinessyear.com/publication/article/2/46/lebanon-2012/many-voices|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}} However, the number reduced to 53 due to the 1963 press law.{{Cite web|title=Top Lebanese Newspapers & News Sites - Newspapers in Lebanon|url= http://newspapersinlebanon.com/|website=Newspapers in Lebanon|access-date=12 January 2016}}

Censorship of the press in the country occurred during the Ottoman era.{{cite journal|author=Donald J. Cioeta|title=Ottoman Censorship in Lebanon and Syria, 1876-1908|jstor=162125|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|date=May 1979|volume=10|issue=2|pages=167–186|doi=10.1017/s0020743800034759|s2cid=163019820 }} It was also frequent in 1976 following the intervention of Syrian military in the Lebanese Civil War on behalf of Maronite Christians.{{cite book|author=Miriam Cooke|title=Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsaC40CnhcoC&pg=PA8|date=14 August 2007|publisher=Duke University Press

|isbn=978-0-8223-4035-5|page=9|location=Durham, NC}} As of 2012, the newspapers were being published in three major languages of Arabic, English and French{{cite book|author=Paul Doyle|title=Lebanon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzsRk0hvb_MC&pg=PA78|date=1 March 2012|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-84162-370-2|page=78}} and there were 12 Arabic dailies.

The following is a list of well-known newspapers published in Lebanon.

Daily newspapers

All published in Beirut

=In Arabic=

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=In Armenian=

=In English=

=In French=

  • Al Balad en français (defunct)
  • L'Orient-Le Jour{{cite web|url=http://www.lorient-lejour.com.lb/|title=L'Orient-Le Jour|work=lorient-lejour.com.lb}}
  • Syrie (defunct)
  • Le Soir (defunct)
  • Le Reveil (defunct)

Lebanese non-daily newspapers

=In Arabic=

  • [https://961today.com Lobnan Alyawm]
  • Al-Intiqad (Beirut){{cite web|url=http://www.alintiqad.com/|title=موقع العهد الاخباري : الصفحة الرئيسة|work=alintiqad.com}}
  • Al-Kalima (Zahlé){{cite web|url=http://www.el-kalima.com/|title=El-Kalima|work=el-kalima.com}}
  • Al-Tamadon (Tripoli){{cite web|url=http://www.attamaddon.com/|title=Untitled Document|work=attamaddon.com}}
  • Hamzat Wassel (Beirut, Tripoli){{Cite web|url=http://nic.ru/|title=RU-CENTER|website=RU-CENTER}}
  • Lisan al Hal
  • Asharara
  • Ila-l-Amam (defunct)

=In English=

Lebanese online news portals (Arabic, French and English )

  • [https://961today.com/ 961today]
  • [https://info3.com info3]
  • The961.com{{cite web|url=https://www.the961.com/|title=The961|work=The961.com}}
  • [https://dailybeirut.com Daily beirut]
  • Alankabout{{cite web|url=http://www.alankabout.com/|title=العنكبوت الالكتروني|work=alankabout.com}}
  • Iloubnan.info{{cite web|url=http://www.iloubnan.info|title=Actualité en direct et informations en continu sur le Liban et le Moyen Orient - iloubnan.info|work=iloubnan.info}}
  • Lebanon24{{cite web|url=http://www.lebanon24.com|title=Lebanon 24 - Lebanon news, breaking news - لبنان ٢٤ - أخبار لبنان|work=lebanon24.com}}
  • Tayyar.org (Disclosure: Owned by the FPM political party){{Cite web|url=https://www.tayyar.org/|title=Tayyar.org - your lebanese news source since 2002|website=tayyar.org}}
  • Lebanon Debate{{Cite web|url=https://www.lebanondebate.com/|title=Lebanon Debate | ليبانون ديبايت | Lebanon News and Breaking news | An independent website|website=www.lebanondebate.com}}
  • Lebanon Files{{Cite web|url=https://www.lebanonfiles.com/|title=LebanonFiles|website=LebanonFiles}}
  • LibanVision{{Cite web|url=http://libanvision.com/|title=LibanVision, Liban, Portail libanais francophone, Observatoire Plateforme de la francophonie libanaise, Lebanon Proche Orient dans le monde, guide de navigation, index annuaire de recherche sur le web internet réseaux sociaux, actualité de la francophonie, évenements, informations, associations, échanges, coopération, personnalités franco-libanaises Beyrouth, Paris, Moyen-Orient, Middle-East|website=libanvision.com}}
  • Lebanonwire
  • Naharnet
  • Lebanos
  • Al Moutaqadem
  • NOW Lebanon
  • Akhbar SMB موقع شباب الملعب البلدي الأخباري
  • Ebaldatihttp://e-baldati.info {{Dead link|date=August 2022}}
  • Almodon{{Cite web|title=الصفحة الرئيسية|url=https://www.almodon.com/portal|access-date=20 November 2020

|website=almodon|language=ar}}

  • jadidouna news*

See also

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