Marianas Variety News & Views
Encyclopedia
Marianas Variety News & Views is an award-winning daily newspaper
published in Saipan
, Northern Mariana Islands
, five times per week. It is owned by Younis Art Studio Inc. Marianas Variety News & Views is a member of the Associated Press
, Reuters
, and the Pacific Islands News Association.
.
. It currently has one sister publication, launched in the late 1990s: Marianas Variety-Guam edition in Guam
, which has a readership of 48,000.
The Variety prints an average of 28-40 pages daily with full color capability and is distributed in the CNMI, Guam, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia. It have subscribers in the South Pacific, the Philippines, Hawaii, Japan and the mainland U.S.
The Variety provides its readers with the most extensive local and regional news and views. It carries interesting and in-depth feature stories, U.S. and international news. It has the liveliest opinion page in all of the Marianas and remains the only CNMI newspaper that takes a stand, through its editorials, on the burning issues of the day.
Variety’s Web site allows readers to submit comments as well as to see advertising rates and other specifications.
Awards
Best Newspaper, awarded by the Society of Professional Journalists-NMI chapter in 1995
Best Editorial Writing, SPJ-NMI, 1995
Best News Photography, SPJ-NMI, 1995
NMI Humanities Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism, 2001
Best Online Edition of a Pacific Island Newspaper, 2002
Environmental Achievement Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003
Other services
Younis Art Studio also offers printing and sign services.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
published in Saipan
Saipan
Saipan is the largest island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , a chain of 15 tropical islands belonging to the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean with a total area of . The 2000 census population was 62,392...
, Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines...
, five times per week. It is owned by Younis Art Studio Inc. Marianas Variety News & Views is a member of the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
, Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
, and the Pacific Islands News Association.
Competitors
The Marianas Variety News & Viewss main competitor is the Saipan TribuneSaipan Tribune
The Saipan Tribune is a daily newspaper published seven days a week in the Northern Mariana Islands. The Saipan Tribune, which has the largest circulation in the Northern Mariana Islands, is headquartered in Saipan. The newspaper is owned by Pacific Publications and Printing Inc., an which is an...
.
History
Established on March 16, 1972, Marianas Variety News & Views today has a readership of 40,000 in the Northern Mariana Islands and 2,000 elsewhere in MicronesiaMicronesia
Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest....
. It currently has one sister publication, launched in the late 1990s: Marianas Variety-Guam edition in Guam
Guam
Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...
, which has a readership of 48,000.
The Variety prints an average of 28-40 pages daily with full color capability and is distributed in the CNMI, Guam, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia. It have subscribers in the South Pacific, the Philippines, Hawaii, Japan and the mainland U.S.
The Variety provides its readers with the most extensive local and regional news and views. It carries interesting and in-depth feature stories, U.S. and international news. It has the liveliest opinion page in all of the Marianas and remains the only CNMI newspaper that takes a stand, through its editorials, on the burning issues of the day.
Variety’s Web site allows readers to submit comments as well as to see advertising rates and other specifications.
Awards
Best Newspaper, awarded by the Society of Professional Journalists-NMI chapter in 1995
Best Editorial Writing, SPJ-NMI, 1995
Best News Photography, SPJ-NMI, 1995
NMI Humanities Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism, 2001
Best Online Edition of a Pacific Island Newspaper, 2002
Environmental Achievement Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003
Other services
Younis Art Studio also offers printing and sign services.