Newspapers started being published in Ukraine in the 18- th century. There was for example, the " Lviv Courier", in Polish, 1749. But Ukrainian periodicals began with the " Kharkiv Weekly" 1812 and " Kharkiv News", 1817. After the World War II the Russian language periodicals began to dominate. Since Ukraine gained its independence the proportion of newspapers and magazines in Ukrainian increased again. A total of 2,659 newspapers were published in Ukraine in 1998 with annual circulation of 3,096 mln copies, plus 1,009 magazines.
The main national newspapers are " Holos Ukrainy", " Pravda Ukrainy", " Robitnicha Gazeta", "Fakty", "Dzerkalo Tyzhnia" and some others. They report national and international news.
Very popular magazines among the readers are the magazines " Beregynya", "Vitchizna", " Lyudyna I Svit", etc.
There are magazines and periodicals for many trades, professions, interests.
At present Ukrainian periodicals are independent and censorship, free.
But in daily practice editors and journalists face with the problem of survival.