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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 Jamaica Star. 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. [13]
The Gleaner. 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 ...
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]
Evon Blake. Eyrell Blake, known as Evon Blake (7 February 1906 – 7 November 1988), [1] was a Jamaican journalist who challenged the racial status quo in colonial Jamaica. Born in Salem, in Clarendon Parish to Cottilda and Joseph Blake, a farmer, he studied journalism in Panama. He gained a PhD from a university in Pennsylvania .
Awards. Gold Musgrave Medal (2005) Richard Hart (13 August 1917 – 21 December 2013) was a Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician. He was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP) and one of the pioneers of Marxism in Jamaica. [1] He played an important role in Jamaican politics in the years leading up to Independence in ...
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]