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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded in New York City in September 18th, 1851. It is owned, since the beginning, by The New York Times Company with Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr as chairman. The Ochs-Sulzberger family has the power over the paper for five generations.
In 2007, a survey made by polling company Rasmussen Reports about public perceptions of major media channels identified that 40% of the people interviewed see NYT as having a liberal position, 20% no political slant and 11% consider it has a conservative inclination. Former fellows of the University of California, Los Angeles, with a conservative expertise, performed a study giving the New York Times a score of 63.5 on a 100 point scale, being 0 most conservative and 100 most liberal.
Since 1956, The New York Times has not endorsed a Republican for president, supporting since then, only Democratic nominees. Nevertheless, it has supported Republican Mayors for New York City in 1997, 2005 and 2009.
The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", always appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page, and The New York Times has won 114 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization.
This is the second year that there will be a Press Committee during PelotasMun. The participants of this committee are going to act as journalists of important international newspapers worldwide and they will be responsible to covering the event and writing the newspapers that will be distributed to the delegates during the four days of the simulation. Listed below are the four chosen newspapers that are going to be represented by the Press Committee during the fourth edition of PelotasMUN.
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China Daily
China Daily is a daily newspaper from the People’s Republic of China that started its activities in 1981 and is published in English. The Communist Party of China controls the publications of the newspaper.
The China Daily is a member of the Asia News Network (ANN). The ANN is a network of 21 media groups in Asian countries as China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan and more. It is organized to provide means for cooperation and to optimize coverage of major news events in the region.
Published from Monday to Saturday, the average daily circulation of the China Daily is more than 200.000. One third of this amount goes abroad to more than 150 countries and regions.
Engaged in helping the world to know more about China and the country’s integration with the international community, China Daily is an important source of information on Chinese politics, economy, society and culture and often receives the denomination of “Voice of China” or “Window to China”.
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera is a Doha-based state-funded broadcaster owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partly funded by the House of Thani, the ruling family of Qatar. Initially it was launched as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel, but currently Al Jazeera expanded itself into a network with several outlets, including the Internet and specialty TV channels in multiple languages.
The network has been called a propaganda outlet for the Qatari government and its foreign policy, by analysts and by news reporters. The network is sometimes perceived as having mainly Islamist perspectives, promoting the Muslim Brotherhood, and having a pro-Sunni and an anti-Shia bias in its reporting of regional issues. It also accused of having an anti-Western bias. However, Al Jazeera insists it covers all sides of a debate; it says it presents Israel's view such as Iran's one.
Al Jazeera came to the attention of many in the West during the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan after the 11 September attacks on the United States. It aired videos it received from Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, deeming new footage of the world's most wanted fugitives to be newsworthy. Some criticized the network for giving a voice to terrorists.
For better or worse, Al Jazeera presents a new direction in the discourse of global news flow and shows voices underrepresented by traditional mainstream media regardless global imbalances in the flow of information.
El País
El País is the highest-circulation daily newspaper in Spain and one of three Madrid dailies considered national newspapers of record for Spain. The newspaper was founded in May 4th, 1976, in the transition to democracy after the fall of the Franco dictatorship. The Spanish media conglomerate PRISA owns El País, based in Madrid.
Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions are produced. El País also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in Brazil and Latin America.
The paper's ideology has always been defined by a leaning towards Europeanism with a strong will for independence, defense of freedom and characterized by the amount of space it gives to the reporting of international news, culture and information regarding the economy, as well as Spanish news.
Politically, it was situated in the canter-left during most of the transition. After a series of disputes with the Socialist administration of Jose Luis Zapatero (2004–2011), the paper is considered to be more predictably in harmony with positions of support for the center-right.
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