''Penguin News'' is the only
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
produced in the
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...
. It is published every Friday and provides news and features about the islands.
History
The paper was founded as a monthly in 1979, and after the
Falkland Islands War it became a fortnightly paper and then eventually a weekly paper. It was sold to fishing company Seamount Ltd in 1988 in the hopes of saving the newspaper, but after Seamount's bankruptcy the
Falkland Islands Government
The politics of the Falkland Islands takes place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary representative democratic dependency as set out by the constitution, whereby the Governor exercises the duties of head of state in the ...
took control of Seamount's assets, and legislation was passed for the Media Trust to guarantee the independence of the paper.
Editions from 1979 to date are published online by the Falklands Government Archives.
Uruguayan news agency MercoPress marked the 25th anniversary of the founding of Penguin News with an article which tracked the paper's interesting history.
See also
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Falkland Islands Gazette'' The official journal of the
Falkland Islands Government
The politics of the Falkland Islands takes place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary representative democratic dependency as set out by the constitution, whereby the Governor exercises the duties of head of state in the ...
since 1891.
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The Falkland Islands Journal'' is an annual
academic journal
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covering all aspects of research on the
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...
. It was established in 1967.
[Walton, D.W.H. "The ''Falkland Islands Journal''" in '']Polar Record
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'', Volume 22, Issue 140, May 1985, pp. 537-538.
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Falkland Islands Magazine published monthly from 1889 until 1933.
References
External links
Penguin News
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Publications with year of establishment missing
Communications in the Falkland Islands
English-language newspapers published in South America