The Nassau Guardian is a newspaper in The Bahamas,[1] based in Nassau. Its first issue was published November 23, 1844.[2][3] It is the largest newspaper in the Bahamas.[4] The paper is one of the oldest continually published newspapers in the world and is considered a newspaper of record for The Bahamas.[5]
After the liberal Sir James Carmichael-Smyth became governor in 1829, dissent rose in Nassau over the question of emancipation and in 1831 a pro-slavery section of the community supported George Biggs in the establishment of The Argus in order to promote their anti-emancipation views.
In 1837, Edwin Charles Moseley, a journalist who had worked at The Times in London, arrived in Nassau to take up his appointment as editor of The Argus.[6] Moseley found the semi-weekly's policies so objectionable that he refused to become its editor. On 23 November 1844, Moseley founded the Nassau Guardian.[6] Recognizing that the newspaper industry in the Bahamas could not withstand three newspapers, Moseley acquired the Bahama Herald in 1877.[6]
Alfred Edwin Moseley acquired the Nassau Guardian from his father, Edwin. In 1904, Alfred died and Mary Moseley became the editor and manager of the newspaper.[6] In 1907, Mary acquired the newspaper from the Estate of the late Percival James Moseley.[6]
Mary would own and run the newspaper for 48 more years to a restricted audience with circulation seldom exceeding 300 daily.[3] Before WWII, she had hoped to give the newspaper to her nephew, Doyle Moseley who lived in Australia at that time. Doyle would enlist in The Royal Air Force during the war and while in a raid over France in the early 1940s had been killed.[3]
Since no one in the family was interested in the family business, she turned control and the newspaper to a group of Nassau business and professional men who offered to buy The Nassau Guardian from her. Mary worked in an advisory capacity from 1952–55.[6] Mary died on January 19, 1961, at the age of 81.
The new owners tried to turn it into a propaganda medium to promote their political philosophies, however, that was not successful.[3] In 1967, John S. Perry Jr., acquired the newspaper. On January 20, 2002, The Nassau Guardian became a fully Bahamian–owned newspaper when John H. Perry, son of John Jr., sold his 60 percent stake in the company.[3]
The current owners are Emanuel Alexiou and Anthony Ferguson At some point, The Nassau Guardian acquired and also operates The Freeport News.[3]
Referencesedit
^"A NEW REBEL PIRATE.; Reported Depredations on Our Shipping near Nassau The Bark Lizzie a Captured and Fired The Pirate Captain Declares His Intention to Show No Quarter". The New York Times. New York City. June 10, 1865. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
^. The Nassau Guardian. August 3, 2007. Archived from the original on August 7, 2007.
^ abcdef"About Us". The Nassau Guardian. Nassau, Bahamas: The Nassau Guardian, LLC. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
^Sardella, Carlo M. (October 10, 1976). "Casino Security: Plan for the Future?". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
^Beezley, William H. (September 2021). Latin America 2020-2022 (54th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 433. ISBN978-1475856439. The Nassau Guardian, founded in 1844, is the country's newspaper of record and one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the Western Hemisphere.
^ abcdefLawlor, Jim (January 18, 2010). "SIP SIP HISTORY - BAHAMAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY". The Bahamas Weekly. Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas: The Bahamas Weekly, LLC. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
Riley, Sandra (2000). Homeward Bound: A History of the Bahama Islands to 1850 with a Definitive Study of Abaco in the American Loyalist Plantation Period. London: Riley Hall. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 280. ISBN978-0966531022.
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