Type | Daily newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Butch Stewart |
Founded | January 1993 |
Website | jamaicaobserver.com |
The Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner. Its founding editor is Desmond Allen who is its executive editor – operations. At the time, it became Jamaica's fourth national newspaper.
History
The Jamaica Observer began as a weekly newspaper in March 1993, and in December 1994 it began daily publication. The paper moved to larger facilities as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations in 2004.
References
- Jamaican Entrepreneurs. Caribbean Update, 1 March 1993. Mirror
- "Jamaica: New Weekly Newspaper to Appear March 5". Miami Herald. 18 January 1993. Archived from the original on 2012-10-13.
- "Ja Observer opens new offices". Jamaica Gleaner. 9 February 2004. Archived from the original on 28 March 2009.
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