Jornal de Notícias

Jornal de Notícias is a long-established Portuguese daily newspaper based in Porto, with a substantial national footprint. Broadly centrist in orientation, it offers a wide mix of current affairs, society, sport and regional coverage, and is one of the country's most widely read general-interest papers.

Visit jn.pt ↗Compare across Portugal

Jornal de Notícias at a glance

Country: Portugal
Region: Southern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Daily newspaper
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1888
Published from: Porto
Website: jn.pt ↗
Preview: Renders inside Crosswire's comparison panes (last checked 2026-10-12).

Founding, ownership and location are directory records without individual source citations here. Ownership can change; verify these details with the publisher before quoting them. The preview status comes from the weekly audit that requests every outlet through Crosswire's own edge — see how the fetcher identifies itself.

Jornal de Notícias front page, right now

Open a live, light-mode preview of Jornal de Notícias's homepage. Use the language selector in the header to translate the preview into your language.

Load Jornal de Notícias's live homepage here, or open the publisher directly.

Open publisher ↗

How Crosswire groups Jornal de Notícias

Crosswire groups Jornal de Notícias as Centrist for comparisons within Portugal's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Portugal, Público is listed as Left-leaning, while Observador and Correio da Manhã are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Jornal de Notícias beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Compare Jornal de Notícias with another outlet from Portugal covering the same event and edition. Record the headline, publication time, named sources and links to original evidence. Similar leaning labels can still produce different coverage; a different label does not guarantee an independent source. Check the articles before interpreting a front-page difference as bias.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings. This profile does not include an individual assessment citation. Page updated 2026-09-28; this is a content-change date, not a fresh fact-check of the outlet. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Where Jornal de Notícias sits in Portugal's press

Jornal de Notícias was founded in 1888 and is published from Porto. It is one of 7 outlets tracked in Portugal, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Público, Expresso and Diário de Notícias. By outlets tracked, Portugal ranks eighth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Jornal de Notícias outside Portugal, starting with Southern Europe, are Cyprus Mail (Cyprus), Delo (Slovenia), Jutarnji list (Croatia) and Dnevni avaz (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Opening one of them beside Jornal de Notícias is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.