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The ''Nation Publishing Co. Limited'' is the publisher of the ''Nation Newspaper'', which is the dominant daily
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* Daily newspapers published in Barbados Mass media companies of Barbados Publications established in 1973 {{Caribbean-newspaper-stub
The ''Nation Publishing Co. Limited'' is the publisher of the ''Nation Newspaper'', which is the dominant daily newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
in the country of Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...
. Co-founded by Harold Hoyte and Fred Gollop, it was first established in 1973. the ''Daily Nation'' is printed daily in colour and distributed at many points around the country. Covering the topics of business, sports, politics, lifestyles, editorials and entertainment, the ''Daily Nation'' reports many aspects of news in Barbados, in addition to regional, and International news.
The name of the publications vary according to different weekdays. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, it is the ''Daily Nation''. Wednesdays it is the ''Midweek Nation'' and Fridays the ''Weekend Nation''. On weekends the newspaper is the ''Saturday Sun'' and ''Sunday Sun'' respectively.
The Nation Publishing Company also publishes a weekly youth magazine called ''Attitude'' and a visitors' booklet called ''Explore Barbados''.
In 2004, a weekly Canadian
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print version was created, as a joint venture with the Carib-Cana Media Inc. (CCMI), to service a growing clientele in Canada for weekly news from Barbados. The Canadian version was mainly for the expatriate community of Barbados, and others living in Canada to remain up to date on Barbadian current events.
The parent company of the Nation Publishing Company is One Caribbean Media Limited
One Caribbean Media Ltd (OCM) is a vertically integrated holding company based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The new company was founded in December 2005, following the merger of the Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) of Trinidad and ...
(OCM) based in the country of Trinidad and Tobago
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.
See also
*Media in Barbados
The mass media in Barbados have had a long history of being entitled to an open policy by the Government, and by the citizenry with respect to press Freedoms. Barbados has a collection of local and foreign owned media entities providing the countr ...
* Barbadian companies
References
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* Daily newspapers published in Barbados Mass media companies of Barbados Publications established in 1973 {{Caribbean-newspaper-stub