Marianas Variety News & Views

Marianas Variety News & Views

Type	Daily newspaper
Owner	Younis Art Studio Inc.
Publisher	Abed Younis
Editor	Rizaldy M. Dandan
Founded	1972 (1972)
Headquarters	Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Official website	[1]

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.^[1]

Competitors

Main article: List of newspapers in the Northern Mariana Islands

The Marianas Variety News & Views's main competitor is the Saipan Tribune.

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 Micronesia. It currently has one sister publication, launched in the late 1990s: Marianas Variety-Guam edition in Guam, which has a readership of 48,000.^[1]

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.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "About Us". MVariety.com. Marianas Variety News & Views. http://www.mvariety.com/younis-art-studio-inc.-marianas-variety-news-views.php. Retrieved 22 December 2009. 

External links

• Official website