List of newspapers in Zimbabwe


Zimbabwe is host to some of the oldest newspapers in Africa; The Herald, Zimbabwe's major newspaper, replaced the Mashonaland and Zambesian Times, which was present from the late 1890s. The Herald has seen a decline in readership from 132,000 to between 50,000 and 100,000 in recent years. The influential Daily News, which regularly published criticism of the government, was shut down in 2002, however its director Wilf Mbanga started The Zimbabwean soon after to continue challenging the Mugabe regime. The first daily independent Zimbabwean daily newspaper, following Daily News, NewsDay, started publishing in 2010. Journalists can be fired by the Ministry of Information if content is deemed inappropriate. Other notable Zimbabwean newspapers in print include The Chronicle, The Financial Gazette, the Zimbabwe Independent, and the Zimbabwe Daily News.

Daily newspapers

NewspaperFoundedLocationOwnershipCirculationTypeLanguage
The Anchor2019HararePrivateDailyEnglish
Business WeeklyPrivateWeeklyEnglish
The Chronicle1894BulawayoGovernmentDailyEnglish
Daily News1999HararePrivate100,000+DailyEnglish
The Financial GazetteHararePrivate50,000+WeeklyEnglish
The Harare Tribune2001HararePrivateOnline dailyEnglish
The Herald1892HarareGovernment50,000+DailyEnglish
KwayedzaHarareGovernmentWeeklyShona
The Manica PostMutareGovernmentEnglish
The Midlands ObserverKwekweGovernmentEnglish, Ndebele
NewsDay2010HararePrivateDailyEnglish
Harare Mirror2023HararePrivateDailyEnglish
News Report Zimbabwe2018HararePrivateWeeklyEnglish
Southern Eye2013HararePrivateDailyEnglish
The StandardHararePrivateWeeklyEnglish
The Sunday MailHarareGovernmentWeeklyEnglish
uMthunywaBulawayoGovernmentWeeklyNdebele
DailyTimes ZimbabweHararePrivateOnline dailyEnglish
Zimbabwe Daily News2004PrivateOnline dailyEnglish
Zimbabwe IndependentHararePrivateWeeklyEnglish
The Zimbabwe Mail2003HararePrivateDailyEnglish
Zimbabwe Metro2007Gaborone, BotswanaPrivateOnline dailyEnglish
Zimbabwe Telegraph2008PrivateDailyEnglish
Zimbabwe Tribune2009PrivateOnline dailyEnglish
The Zimbabwean2005PrivateWeeklyEnglish

Defunct newspapers