[1] The name came from the historical Correio Braziliense, published in London from 1808 to 1822 by Hipólito José da Costa, a Liberal Brazilian exile.

In making the decision to build a city that would become the new capital of the Republic, displacing it from Rio de Janeiro, President Juscelino Kubitschek obtained from the owner of the Associated Diaries, Assis Chateaubriand, skeptical of the magnitude of the project, the promise that if the work was carried out at the scheduled time would have accompanied it, recording the birth, a newspaper of his chain.

The proposal to occupy the space in a market that was still nascent and that would expand over the years was accompanied by an identification between the newspaper and the city of Brasilia.

The weight of civil servants in the economy and politics of the capital was replicated by the emphasis attributed to matters related to functionalism, which made up an important segment of the newspaper's readers.

Throughout its history, Correio Braziliense has oscillated between maintaining the local character and seeking to be among the main brazilian daily newspapers.

At the same time, the fact that it was located in the capital of the country made it a prominent presence in federal public agencies and among parliamentarians.

It was also from this moment that the division of tasks in the writing was accentuated, guided by a greater specialization of the subjects and a clearer delimitation among the editorials, following changes that occurred in Brazilian journalism.

The 1996 reform introduced new notebooks, such as Sports, Vehicles, Informatics and Tourism, and modified the newspaper's visual identity.