New York Times

New York Times in a daily newspaper, owned by The New York Times Company. NYT was founded in September 18 1895 by a journalist, Henry Jervis Raymond as the New York Daily Times. Previously, it never used to publish on Sundays but due to demand and need of coverage and information from the civil war, its first Sunday edition was published on April 21st 1861. NYT is termed as the largest national metropolitan daily newspaper in the USA. New York Times motto reads 'All the News that’s fit to Print', hence said to publish what people will find interesting to read. The New York Times is the prime winner of Pulitzer prizes and has gone home with 101 of them. Nationwide prices of the New York go for $2 for daily, For Sunday edition in and around the city are $5 while in the metropolitan area is $6 or $7.

New York Times is currently rank third after USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. It’s said that since 1980s, this is the first time NYT circulation has fallen below the 1 million mark. Due to this, layoffs and expense cutting have been made to maintain its economical situation.

The sole owners of New York Times are the Ochs-Sulzberger family. This is because, the partners involved in The New York Times activities are classified into Class A, B and C, and in these classes only Class B has the voting mandatory, and it constitutes most of people from that family. Its contents are arranged into 8 columns, the only News paper that has maintained that format as others switched to the six column format.

The Star

This is one of the two English publishing newspapers in Amman, Jordan. It’s come every week, on Thursdays.

The star is a weekly English journal published every Thursday in Amman, Jordan. The star and another newspaper Jordan Times are the only two newspapers that publish in English in the Arab kingdom. The star is fully owned by Jordan Press and Publishing co and was first published in 1993. The star is an independent, political, economical and cultural weekly newspaper. Formerly, the star was known as Jerusalem Star first done in 1966 in Jerusalem, its first editor being the late Mahmood Al Sharif. Presently, the star chief editor is Maha El Sherif.

The Jerusalem star used to publish as a tabloid up until 1993 when it changed and up to date it is a broadsheet. It follows the American way of writing and pagination, from spelling to capitalization, from interviews to citations. its readers are said to be 6% Jordan and most them being those who want the news in the English language, this being people in power or resident who can read English. Although it covers other areas, its major coverage tackles political, economical and cultural issues.

The star has made many daring moves; it was the first to interview Israel politicians after the signing of the Palestinian/Jordan-Israel 1993-1994 peace treaty. it was the first to move into Israel to interview other powerful leaders like; Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu. However it also met criticism from those against the signing of the peace process calling the star 'the enemy allies'. with all this and more the star still stands out in Jordan as give neutrality in terms of politics.