An Institution closes.The News, a Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi English-language daily, closed on Dec. 30 after 52 years of publication. The newspaper, which was part of the Novedades Editores empire and a piece of Don Romulo O'Farrill Jr.'s expansive business and publishing holdings, served as an invaluable reference to visiting businessmen, bridge-playing retirees, tourists lounging on Acapulco beaches and football fans in the days before the Internet. Although considered by some as a conservative, ruling party mouthpiece, the oldest English-language daily in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. served as a temporary home for many respected journalists, such as venerated New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of columnist and author Pete Hamill Pete Hamill (born June 24, 1935) is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is currently on the staff of The New Yorker. Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn as the oldest of seven children of Catholic immigrants from , and filled a unique market niche in the world's second-largest city. Some News veterans described the closing as depressing, while others called it inevitable. Advertising space declined markedly in the last few years, and The News' sister publication, the conservatively slanted Novedades, struggled to make money with the decline of the former-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Whatever the reason, with the closing of The News, a vacuum has opened in the newspaper market. Moves are reportedly afoot to relaunch The News under new ownership, but any venture will likely take several months, and in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile faithful readers will be without their Beetle Bailey Beetle Bailey (begun on September 4, 1950) is a comic strip set in a United States Army boot camp, created by Mort Walker. It is among the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The strip also remains among the most popular comic strips today. cartoons and a sports section that many called unrivaled for international coverage in futbol-mad Mexico City. Perhaps the shutting of the newspaper was simply due to the desire of 80-something patriarch Don Romulo--whose photographs of his past dinners with a string of former U.S. presidents including John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in lined the executive office halls--to enjoy his retirement and relax after a prodigious publishing career. Until the end, he remained involved in the management of the daily and was respected by many of his employees, even though he arrived to work in his private helicopter. |
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