Surat kabar acuan (newspaper of record) adalah surat kabar besar yang memiliki sirkulasi besar, fungsi editorial dan pengumpulan beritanya dianggap profesional dan biasanya dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. Sebuah surat kabar acuan bisa juga muncul dalam bentuk surat kabar masyarakat yang diizinkan atau dioperasikan oleh pemerintah untuk menerbitkan pemberitahuan masyarakat atau pemberitahuan hukum, lantas layak disebut "surat kabar acuan masyarakat".[1]
Makna lain
"Surat kabar acuan" jenis kedua (disebut juga "harian acuan" atau Presse de référence dalam bahasa Prancis) tidak memiliki kriteria resmi dan ciri-cirinya beragam. Jenis kedua ini terdiri dari surat kabar yang dianggap memiliki standar jurnalisme tinggi ketimbang media cetak lainnya, termasuk kebebasan editorial dan akurasinya, dan biasanya terkenal di seluruh dunia.[2][3] Meski masyarakat mengalami perubahan, surat kabar seperti ini sejak dulu memiliki gaya, model liputan, dan tradisi yang sama.[2]
Asal istilah
Istilah ini diyakini bermula di kalangan pustakawan yang menyebut The New York Times sebagai "surat kabar acuan" setelah harian tersebut menerbitkan indeks topik artikelnya pada tahun 1913.[4] Untuk meramaikan penggunaan istilah ini, The Times mengadakan kontes esai pada tahun 1927 dengan topik "Nilai Indeks dan Berkas The New York Times Sebagai Surat Kabar Acuan". The Times dan harian sejenisnya kemudian merangkum berbagai peristiwa, pengumuman, jadwal, direktori, proseding, transkrip, dan rapat setiap harinya. The Times saat ini tidak lagi tergolong surat kabar acuan menurut makna aslinya.[5]
Seiring waktu, sejarawan mulai bergantung pada The Times dan koran lainnya sebagai sumber arsip peristiwa lampau yang tepercaya sekaligus kumpulan opini masyarakat pada tiap tahun terbitnya. Istilah "surat kabar acuan" lantas berubah dari makna aslinya menjadi makna umum yang dipahami saat ini.[4]
1848 Sebagian stafnya berpisah pada tahun 1864 dan membentuk Neue Freie Presse, diaryanisasi oleh Nazi tahun 1938 dan ditutup tahun 1939, didirikan lagi dengan nama Die Presse tahun 1946 [9]
^"O Estado de S. Paulo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2013. It is the...country’s newspaper of record. O Estado is sometimes called the “New York Times of Latin America” because of its grave editorial demeanour.
^Fabricio, Roberto (16 April 1992). "Brazilian Officers Issue Manifesto". Sun-Sentinel. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2013. The statement, published on Tuesday by O Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil`s newspaper of record, was datelined in Fortaleza, a mid-sized city in northeastern Brazil.
^Buchanan, Carrie (March 2009). Gasher, Mike, ed. "Sense of Place in the Daily Newspaper"(PDF). Aether: The Journal of Media Geography. 4: 62–84 [70]. Diakses tanggal 14 October 2012. [T]he Toronto-based Globe and Mail has had the kind of success in Canada that the New York Times had enjoyed in the U.S., as the leading 'newspaper of record' with a national readership.
^Lanchester, John (2008). Family Romance: A Love Story. 0143112953: Penguin. hlm. 140. The clippings are from the South China Morning Post, the paper of record in Hong Kong
^Middle East Institute, 1950, p. 155.|quote=Al Ahram is... what The Times is to Englishmen and the New York Times to Americans
^"France profile". BBC News. 12 January 2014. Diakses tanggal 24 January 2014. Le Monde - respected national daily, considered to be France's newspaper of record
^Wilke, Mary; Manicini, Lawrence; Leonard, Spencer (Fall 2007). "Some recent CRL acquisitions related to colonial India". Centre for Research Libraries - Focus on Global Resources. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2009-09-15. Diakses tanggal 2015-02-18.Pemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: authors list (link)
^Dwan, David (April 2009). "The Irish Times, book review". The London Standard. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2014-05-27. Diakses tanggal 26 May 2014. Today, the Irish Times is one of Ireland’s most authoritative journals – the newspaper of record for political and intellectual elites from Mayo to Monkstown. Mark O’Brien provides a detailed and colourful account of this transformation. His history of the Irish Times is also the story of modern Ireland: it tracks the newspaper’s sceptical response to the emergence of the Free State in 1922 and the declaration of the Republic in 1949; it also examines its fractious relationship with the nation’s governments and political figureheads from Eamon de Valera (whom the paper repeatedly compared to Hitler) to Bertie Ahern.
^Gregory Levey (21 August 2008). "Pushing right-wing American politics — in Israel". Salon. Diakses tanggal 24 January 2014. In the past few months, Haaretz, Israel’s paper of record, has run a series of articles expressing misgivings about outside influence.
^Brant Rosen (11 May 2010). "Alan Dershowitz and the Politics of Desperation". The Huffington Post. Diakses tanggal 24 January 2014. Recent polling, alongside articles in both the New York Times and the Israeli paper of record, Ha'aretz, indicate that the American Jewish community no longer feels represented by our so-called representatives - if we ever did.
^Gershom Gorenberg (September 2002). "The Thin Green Line". Mother Jones. Diakses tanggal 24 January 2014. In late January, the declaration ran as an ad in Ha’aretz, the national paper of record...
^ abcdMerrill, John C. (June 2000). "Les quotidiens de référence dans le monde"(PDF). Les cahiers du journalisme (dalam bahasa French). Diarsipkan dari versi asli(PDF) tanggal 2016-03-04. Diakses tanggal 22 January 2014.Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
^Benesch, Susan (21 March 2013). "The Kenyan Elections: Peace Happened". The Huffington Post. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2013. Kenya's newspaper of record, the Daily Nation, published a banner headline "Never Again" over an editorial with a sharp, eloquent warning
^ abChristopher, H. Sterling. "A - C., Volume 1". Encyclopedia of Journalism. hlm. 108.
^"Danas". presseurop. 21 May 2012. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-12-27. Diakses tanggal 18 December 2013. Left leaning, Danas has become the independent daily of record in Serbia ...
^"Grigorev Commentary in Politika: Serbs Vote is Pragmatic". The Bulletin Arcadia University. 1 February 2011. Diakses tanggal 18 December 2013. ... wrote a commentary in the Jan. 26 issue of Politika, the Serbian newspaper of record and the oldest daily in the Balkans.
^Dediu, Horace (19 May 2012). "An interview with Kenney Ho of The Chosun Daily of Korea". Asymco. Diakses tanggal 10 October 2013. The Chosunilbo “has a history of 90 years, has been the most dominant, and influential paper of all time in Korea. It is the No.1 newspaper company in Korea with more than 1.8 million circulation, firmly holding the largest market possession. The paper is recognized Asianwide, where there are many readers in Japan and China.”