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The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica. Established in 1834 by Joshua and Jacob De Cordova, the company's primary product is The Gleaner, a morning broadsheet published six days each week. It also publishes a Sunday paper, the Sunday Gleaner, and an evening tabloid, The Star.
The Gleaner is an English-language, morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova on 13 September 1834 in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] Originally called the Daily Gleaner, the name was changed on 7 December 1992 to The Gleaner. The newspaper is owned and published by Gleaner Company publishing house in Kingston, Jamaica. [2][3][4] The Gleaner is considered a newspaper ...
The Jamaica Star is a newspaper often cited as a resource for happenings in Jamaica. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] According to an advertisement in Editor & Publisher in 1965, the Star was one of the first papers to carry the King Features Syndicate 's coloring and comics page for children.
This is a list of newspapers in Jamaica: Daily Star[1] The Daily Gleaner, the oldest Jamaican daily published by Gleaner Company, founded in 1834, oldest continually published, English language newspaper in the Western Hemisphere [2] The Agriculturalist, the oldest and most consistent agricultural newspaper in the Caribbean for 28 years.
History of Jamaican newspapers In Colonial Jamaica, during the 18th and 19th centuries, there were a number of newspapers that represented the views of the white planters who owned slaves. These newspapers included the Royal Gazette, The Diary and Kingston Daily Advertiser, Cornwall Chronicle, Cornwall Gazette, and Jamaica Courant. [1] These newspapers often served parochial interests. The ...
Career In 1953, Goodison began her career at The Gleaner newspaper, working as a reporter, [ 6] and writing for the paper's social pages under the pseudonym "Kitty Kingston". [ 7] Simultaneously, she wrote the column "Stella Seh" at the Jamaica Star, [ 4] where she used Jamaican patois for the first time in a newspaper. [ 8]
From 1928 to 1933, Blake worked in Panama, before returning to Jamaica where he established his reputation as a journalist, first for the Gleaner Company, and then for the Jamaica Standard and the Jamaica Times. In 1940, Blake established the Spotlight News Magazine, for which he served as editor for more than 16 years.
Political career in colonial Jamaica He became a leader in activism against colonial rule. He gained recognition by writing frequent letters on the issues to the Daily Gleaner newspaper. In 1937 he was elected as treasurer of the Jamaica Workers' Union (JWU), which had been founded by labour activist Allan G.S. Coombs.