Hadashot
Type | Daily |
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Owner(s) | Haaretz Group |
Founded | March 1984 |
Language | Hebrew |
Ceased publication | December 1993 |
Hadashot (Hebrew: חדשות, lit. 'News') was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in Israel between 1984 and 1993.
History
On 4 March 1984 Haaretz Group CEO Amos Schocken announced that a new daily newspaper, Hadashot was to be launched, with Yossi Klein as editor. It was one of the first Israeli newspapers to use colour printing.
The paper was soon hit by a scandal as it published details of the
Hadashot initially had a young, left-wing, anti-establishment image, and was written in youthful Hebrew, bordering on slang. The paper's approach was inconsistent; sometimes yellow, sometimes highbrow.[2] In later years it became more conservative. Circulation remained low and at a press conference on 29 November 1993, Schocken announced the closure of the paper. The last edition was published on 29 December 1993, with the paper having made a cumulative loss of around $20 million.[3]
Senior journalists at the newspaper included
References
- ^ Revisiting the photo that exposed a Shin Bet lie Haaretz, 28 April 2009
- ^ The Israeli Press Archived 2002-09-11 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Virtual Library
- ^ No more news from Hadashot. (newspaper business closed) Israel Business Today, December 1993