Newspapers

The paper is published on Tuesday and Friday and is a sister paper of the Sunday Journal, the only local newspaper published in Ireland on a Sunday. It is the second oldest newspaper still in existence in Ireland. Editions of the paper are published in Coleraine, Ballycastle and Ballymoney, and is also popular among people living in northeast Donegal and the Inishowen peninsula, many of whom live or have family connections in Derry.

Today published by published by Johnston Publishing (NI), the paper was originally titled the Londonderry Sentinel and North West Advertiser and was first published on 19 September 1829 at the price of 5d (five pence). When first launched, the Sentinel was published on a Saturday, but during the past three centuries it has been published on Tuesday and Thursday at various times, and had competed as a regional alternative to the Belfast Telegraph. Today it takes a tabloid form and is published every Wednesday.