[Nfbnet-master-list] NFB-NEWSLINE Adds Papers to Celebrate Anniversary

[Scott White]

8/3/15

NFB-NEWSLINE offers seven new publications in celebration of the 
twentieth year of NFB-NEWSLINE, and the seventy-fifth anniversary of 
the National Federation of the Blind.

Two of our new additions, ABC News and CBS News, can be found in the 
"Breaking News" section.

ABC News provides breaking national and world news and exclusive 
interviews. It is the news division of the American Broadcasting 
Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of the 
Walt Disney Company. ABC News' longtime slogan is "More Americans get 
their news from ABC News than from any other source." ABC News can be 
found under "Breaking News."

CBS News is another source for the latest breaking, national, and 
world news, including politics, sports, entertainment, business, and 
more. CBS News is the news division of American television and radio 
network CBS. CBS recently launched CBSN, the first live anchored 
24-hour streaming news network exclusively online and on smart 
devices. CBS News can be found under "Breaking News."

We are also adding two papers to our International Newspapers 
section: London's Daily Mail and Australia's Herald Sun.

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid. First 
published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's 
second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. The Daily Mail 
was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly-literate 
"lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a 
low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional 
gimmicks," and was the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.

It was at the outset a newspaper for women, the first to provide 
features especially for them, and as of the second-half of 2013 had a 
54.77% female readership, the only British newspaper whose female 
readers constitute more than 50% of its demographic. The Daily Mail 
has been awarded the National Newspaper of the Year in 1995, 1996, 
1998, 2001, 2003, and 2012 by the British Press Awards.

The Herald Sun is Australia's largest-selling daily newspaper, a 
morning tabloid published in Melbourne. It includes Victorian, 
national, and world news, plus entertainment, sports, and business. 
The Herald Sun was established in 1990 as an amalgam of the afternoon 
daily, The Herald, and the morning daily, The Sun News-Pictorial. It 
is Victoria's paper of choice --latest readership figures confirm the 
Herald Sun is Australia's favorite daily newspaper.

You can find the Daily Mail and the Herald Sun under "Newspapers in 
Another State" and then "International Newspapers."

Our next offering is a new award-winning magazine. The Atlantic was 
founded (as The Atlantic Monthly) in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, 
and is now based in Washington, D.C. It was created as a literary and 
cultural commentary magazine, growing to achieve a national 
reputation as a high-quality review with a moderate worldview. The 
magazine has notably recognized and published new writers and poets, 
as well as encouraged major careers. It has also published leading 
writers' commentary on abolition, education, and other major issues 
in contemporary political affairs. The magazine has won more National 
Magazine Awards than any other monthly magazine. The Atlantic can be 
found under Magazines.

We are also introducing the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the newspaper of 
record for Bozeman and southwest Montana, whose slogan is "Empowering 
the Community". Since 1996, the Chronicle has been published each 
morning, and its first Saturday edition was published in 1997. It is 
noted by many of its residents and non-residents to have an 
entertaining Police Reports section, which include "many minor crimes 
of a more humorous or absurd nature." In 2011, they published the 
book, "We Don't Make This Stuff Up," a compilation of over thirty 
years of some of these crimes.

If you are not a Montana subscriber, you can read the Bozeman Daily 
Chronicle under "Newspapers in Another State," "Montana." You can 
find this paper if you are a Montana subscriber under "Newspapers in 
Your State." It might be worth taking a look at that Police Reports section!

The last item to be added at this time is The Texas Observer (also 
known as The Observer), a nonprofit American political news magazine 
regarded as "the state's leading journalistic voice for 
progressivism." It is published monthly and based in Austin, Texas.

The Observer was founded by Frankie Randolph and founding editor 
Ronnie Dugger, in Austin, in 1954 to address topics ignored by daily 
newspapers in the state, such as issues affecting working people and 
concerning class and race. Upon its founding, Dugger declared the 
paper's manifesto as "We will serve no group or party but will hew 
hard to the truth as we find it and the right as we see it."

Fitting with its "muckraking" reputation, the publication's slogan 
is: "Sharp reporting and commentary from the strangest state in the 
Union." The Observer often garners more laurels from those who live 
outside Texas's borders than those within; The New York Review of 
Books described it as "that outpost of reason in the Southwest." John 
Kenneth Galbraith said the Observer is a "well-researched journal 
which more orthodox Texas statesmen feel should not have the 
protection of the First Amendment."

The Observer operates on a shoestring budget -- it accepts few 
advertisements, supporting itself through donations and benefit banquets.

If you are not a Texas subscriber, you can find The Texas Observer 
under "Newspapers in Another State," "Texas." If you are a Texas 
subscriber, you can find this paper under "Newspapers in Your State."

Your NFB-NEWSLINE Team

NFB-NEWSLINE, a service of the National Federation of the Blind

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characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise 
the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create 
obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life 
you want; blindness is not what holds you back.