The Royal Gazette
Encyclopedia
The Royal Gazette, founded in 1828, is the only daily newspaper in the island nation of Bermuda
. It is published Mondays through Saturdays; there is no Sunday edition.
With an average daily circulation 14,578 copies (last audited November 2007), the paper says it reaches around 90% of the adult population. The Royal Gazette is owned by The Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd. Bill Zuill is currently Editor-in-Chief and Jeremy Deacon is Assistant Editor.
The Sports section devotes extensive coverage to Bermuda's cricket
and football (soccer) teams, along with reports of English football and occasional wire stories on American football and baseball. The weekly Shipping section provides news about port issues and details of cargo and cruise ship arrivals, which are of interest to the remote island's readers. The Saturday Religion section has a large number of church ads, along with news accounts of church programmes and issues.
When the Royal Gazettes sister paper, the weekly Mid-Ocean News
, ceased publication in October, 2009, its full-colour comics section and magazine-style television guide insert became Royal Gazette features.
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
. It is published Mondays through Saturdays; there is no Sunday edition.
With an average daily circulation 14,578 copies (last audited November 2007), the paper says it reaches around 90% of the adult population. The Royal Gazette is owned by The Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd. Bill Zuill is currently Editor-in-Chief and Jeremy Deacon is Assistant Editor.
The Sports section devotes extensive coverage to Bermuda's cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
and football (soccer) teams, along with reports of English football and occasional wire stories on American football and baseball. The weekly Shipping section provides news about port issues and details of cargo and cruise ship arrivals, which are of interest to the remote island's readers. The Saturday Religion section has a large number of church ads, along with news accounts of church programmes and issues.
When the Royal Gazettes sister paper, the weekly Mid-Ocean News
Mid-Ocean News
The Mid-Ocean News was a newspaper published in Bermuda between 1911 and October 16, 2009. It was a sister publication of The Royal Gazette, which acquired it in 1962. At the time, the Mid-Ocean News was a daily afternoon newspaper...
, ceased publication in October, 2009, its full-colour comics section and magazine-style television guide insert became Royal Gazette features.
Weekly Sections
- Personal Technology (Wednesday)
- Shipping (Wednesday)
- Youth (Thursday)
- TV Week (Friday)
- Personal Finance (Saturday)
- Religion (Saturday)
- Weekender (Saturday)
External links
- The Royal Gazette Website
- Archival issues of The Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily, available in the Digital Library of the CaribbeanDigital Library of the CaribbeanThe Digital Library of the Caribbean is an international digital library operated collaboratively by the contributing partners.-Partners:...