''Jaunākās Ziņas'' (''The Latest News'') was a
Latvian-language
Latvian ( ), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as ...
newspaper published in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
from 1911 to 1940 and was the largest and most influential paper of its era.
[Terzis, Georgios. ''European Journalism Education''. Intellect Bristol, UK/Chicago USA. 2009.] The newspaper was owned by the Benjamiņi couple, initially begun with
Emīlija Benjamiņa as publisher and Antons Benjamiņš as editor-in-chief.
While at first an inexpensive newspaper for the general public, it became a leading daily paper for the democratic center and liberal movements, with the largest circulation and a reputation for reliability.
[Švābe, A. ''Latvijas Enciklopēdija'', vol. 1. Trīs Zvaigznes, Stockholm. 1950-1951.] Following Antons Benjamiņš' tenure as editor-in-chief, Jānis Kārkliņš assumed the position in 1921; Ernests Runcis-Arnis in 1928; and Pēteris Blaus in 1937–40.
''Jaunākās Ziņas''′ printing run on workdays was approximately 160,000 copies; on Sundays, 200,000. The paper's popularity was attributable to its mix of timely information on current events and publication of serialized popular novels, such as
Tarzan,
and debuts of new literature, including the poetry of
Rainis.
[''J. Rainis, Kopoti Raksti 30. sējumos'' (J. Rainis, Collected works in 30 volumes). Zinātne, 1983.]
The newspaper ceased to exist with the
Soviet occupation of Latvia. Emīlija Benjamiņa was subject to the 1941
Soviet deportations from Latvia
Soviet deportations from Latvia were a series of mass deportations by the Soviet Union from Latvia in 1941 and 1945–1951, in which around 60,000 inhabitants of Latvia were deported to inhospitable remote areas of the Soviet Union, which had oc ...
and died in the
Usollag
Usollag, full name: Usolye Corrective Labor Camp (russian: Усольлаг, Усольский исправительно-трудовой лагерь (Усольский ИТЛ) ) was a Gulag forced labor camp established on February 5, 1938 an ...
Gulag forced labor camp.
References
External links
Issues of ''Jaunākās Ziņas'' 1911–1940
Defunct newspapers published in Latvia
Latvian-language newspapers
Mass media in Riga
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