Newspaper

Abu Dhabi-backed newspaper buyout sparking panic

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Copies of The Daily Telegraph newspaper on a newsstand in a shop in London, UK, on March 12, 2024 (L), and UAE Vice President Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan speaking at COP28 on Dec. 1, 2023. Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Mansions, university facilities, think tanks, sports teams — the U.K. is no stranger … Read more

Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped 50 years ago. Now she’s famous for her dogs

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newspaper heiress Patricia “Patty” Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint 50 years ago Sunday by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a little-known armed revolutionary group. The 19-year-old college student’s infamous abduction in Berkeley, California, led to Hearst joining forces with her captors for a 1974 bank robbery that earned her a prison sentence. … Read more

Prince Harry Wins Partial Victory In Newspaper Hacking Case

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Prince Harry received a ruling in his favor in a landmark case accusing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) of unlawfully gathering information, a watershed victory that could potentially pave the way for other lawsuits against the press. Judge Timothy Fancourt said in London’s High Court Friday morning that he found proof of “extensive” hacking. Harry sued … Read more

Zach Gage’s Puzzmo gets acquired as the newspaper games space heats up

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The battle over newspaper-style puzzle games is intensifying. Hearst — which publishes the likes of Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle — has announced that it has acquired Puzzmo, a puzzle gaming platform led by indie developers Zach Gage and Orta Therox. The move puts Hearst directly up against the gaming efforts of The … Read more

Singapore’s Chinese language-language newspaper more and more echoes China’s message

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SINGAPORE — As China accelerates efforts to construct its world energy, President Xi Jinping has laid out an extravagant imaginative and prescient for abroad ethnic-Chinese language communities that he hopes will “give form to a strong joint pressure for advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese language nation.” China International Leap At each level of the … Read more

Nationwide newspaper in Mexico says its reporter was killed in western state

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MEXICO CITY — The Mexican nationwide newspaper La Jornada stated Saturday that its workers reporter within the Pacific coast state of Nayarit has been discovered useless. The physique of journalist Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez was discovered on the outskirts of the state capital, Tepic, La Jornada reported. Sánchez Iñiguez, 59, had been lacking since Wednesday … Read more

Guatemalan newspaper El Periódico, based by José Rubén Zamora, closes

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Touch upon this storyComment El Periódico, a crusading newspaper that uncovered corruption within the Guatemalan authorities and different establishments, ceased publication on Monday, the most recent sufferer of an escalating wave of repression towards impartial journalism in Central America. In a closing version Monday, the 27-year-old newspaper stated it had taken the “bitter and unhappy … Read more

Guatemala’s El Periodico newspaper to close down amid founder’s prosecution

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A Guatemalan newspaper identified for hard-hitting investigations of presidency corruption and whose founder is presently on trial, has introduced that it’ll shut down BySONIA PÉREZ D. Related Press GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan newspaper identified for hard-hitting investigations of presidency corruption and whose founder is presently on trial, introduced Friday that it’ll shut down. El … Read more