World's Smallest Newspaper

World's Smallest Newspaper - First News.

The tiny paper measures a news making minute 32 x 22 millimeters or 1.25 x 0.86 inches and sports an elephant on the first page.








First News is a weekly newspaper aimed at 7-14 year olds. It is in tabloid format, and aims to present current events in a child-friendly format, alongside news on entertainment, sport and computer games. It is published on Fridays and is sold for £1.10.

Three years since launch, First News is the widest-read publication for children in the UK with just under 800,000 readers a week. It is available on the news-stand, by home subscription and around a quarter of schools nationwide subscribe to it as well.

It was launched by editorial director Piers Morgan at 11 Downing Street, official residence of the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, where the then Chancellor Gordon Brown said that the paper would make a "great contribution to education" by making children aware of current events.