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A man walks past The Washington Post building on August 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, after it was announced that Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos had agreed to purchase the Post for USD 250 million. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)


Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post

Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post

Los Angeles, AP—Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of “old media”: The Washington Post. Bezos, 49, struck a deal announced Monday to buy the venerable Washington broadsheet and...
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file photo dated 10 June 2009 shows the printing presses building of the Boston Globe at the newspaper’s headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (EPA/CJ Gunther)


US billionaire buys Boston Globe

US billionaire buys Boston Globe

New York, Reuters—The New York Times Co. has agreed to sell The Boston Globe to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team for USD 70 million in cash, a small fraction of what the Times paid for the newspaper 20 years ago. Under the transaction announced...
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Opinion: Two Unique Readers

Opinion: Two Unique Readers

One could say that Asharq Al-Awsat, since its initial publication on July 4, 1978, until today, represents a unique publication in the world of media, whether we are talking about print media or television. Perhaps the secret of the newspaper’s continuing excellence...
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File photo of Al-Ittihad newspaper Editor-in-Chief Mohammed Al Hammadi. (AAA)