September first publication was a 4-page weekly newspaper printed at 66 West Harbour Street along with the Merchantile Intelligencer. It began life as The Gleaner and Weekly Compendium of News published on Saturdays only, at a quarterly subscrption rate of 10 shillings in Kingston, and 13 shillings and four pence in the rural areas. January an earthquake and subsequent fire destroyed the building on Harbour Street, four days later the newspaper was on the streets again, and printing was done at the Government Printing Office for a time.
January: The first Children's Own was published. November: The first Star was published. Branch offices were established, the first was located in Montego Bay. The Weekend Star was introduced, pages with a 8-page entertainment section, priced at 3 pence.
The Sunday Magazine was added to the Sunday Gleaner. Gleaner shares quoted on the Jamaica Stock Market at 12 shillings per five-shilling share. Major computer system upgrade - making it one of the first newspapers in the Caribbean to switch over to new technology. System Integrators, Inc. SII provides news publishing solutions that allow organizations around the world to reach more than 50 million readers every day.
LASR creates, maintains and accesses an on-line library of news stories. It is available to anyone who has authority to access the system reporters, editors, researchers, others who want to peruse all or part of published stories.
Two years later the paper expanded to 4 pages and was being published daily except for Sundays. Advertisement sheets were distributed for free and subscribers could get the paper by 6 a. Although the paper became a public company in , Michael deCordova served as managing director until By that time the Daily Gleaner was involved in charitable causes, and in book publishing, having started to print the "Gleaner Geography and History of Jamaica" in the s for use in schools island wide.
Today, Jamaica boasts multiple newspapers alongside the Gleaner. These include magazines and journals The Star, Observer, and Herald, and various media and publishing houses and imprints, and numerous book and stationery stores. The Gleaner's operations by the way are now fully computerized, and it remains the island's foremost newspaper group, employing close to people in Jamaica, with offices across the world, including Kingston , Montego Bay , America, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The Daily Gleaner was mentioned by Dr. No's photographer in the James Bond film Dr No. Old and very old editions of The Gleaner are made available courtesy of NewspaperArchive. To learn more or get the latest, visit the Jamaica Gleaner's website.
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By Monday, 14 July of the same year, the company conducted its business entirely on the new premises. As the need became apparent for the western end of the island to be better serviced, a branch office was established in Montego Bay in , and later advertising offices were opened in Ocho Rios and Mandeville.
The Gleaner Archive is an online database containing more than , historical newspaper pages from the Gleaner newspaper. The full-page newspapers, dating back to , are added to the site three months after publication and are searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for subscribers to quickly explore historical content. This database allows subscribers to gain a local perspective on historical news, to research family history or to simply read about persons or events of interest.
The directory is also available online at www. Newspaper in Education—a programme, which distributes Gleaner publications to schools each year. PALS Jamaica—a non-profit organization, established in conjunction with other media houses and private sector companies to teach and encourage conflict resolution in schools.
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