Guardian America

Infobox Website
name = Guardian America


| url = [http://www.guardianamerica.com guardianamerica.com]
commercial = Yes
type = Online Newspaper
language = English
registration = Mostly No
owner = Guardian Media Group
author = "The Guardian"
launch date = 2007
current status = Active
revenue = Unknown
Cost = Free

Guardian America is an American version of the British news website The Guardian [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian ] . Although the British version is also available in print, under the name The Guardian, Guardian America is not.

A lot of the content on Guardian America is taken from Guardian Unlimited and The Guardian, although some content is produced for Guardian America. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/america Guardian America | guardian.co.uk ] ]

The current editor of Guardian America is Michael Tomasky.

History

Guardian America was created in October 2007 and was highly publicised at the time of its launch on the Guardian Unlimited website. The response from Guardian Unlimited users at the time of Guardian America's creation was mixed, reflecting concern about possible changes. [Michael Tomasky, [http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_tomasky/2007/10/welcome_to_guardian_america.html Comment is free: Welcome to Guardian America] "Guardian America", October 23, 2007 Article history]

On July 23 the Guardian Media Group announced that Caroline Little, the former chief executive and publisher of WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, would join the Guardian News & Media America operation in the role of special adviser for its expansion in the United States. She will also join the board of ContentNext ( [http://www.contentnext.com/ website] ), the US-based digital business news publisher that owns PaidContent.org ( [http://www.paidcontent.org/ website] ), acquired by GNM earlier in July. [Jemima Kiss, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/guardianmediagroup.digitalmedia GNM hires ex-Washington Post web chief] "The Guardian", July 23, 2008]

Political Stance

Guardian News and Media's publications/websites (including Guardian America) have a left of centre political stance - ranging from centre-ground liberal to left-wing socialist in some comment parts of the site. [ [http://thebrowser.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/ The Browser: Analyzing the tech biz ] ] [ [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4730959/The-Guardian-Britain-s-leading.html The Guardian, Britain's leading left-wing newspaper, has-naturally!-a policy of "diversity" in hiring newsroom staff.(The Week ...)(Brief Article) Industry & Business Article - Research, News, Information, Contacts, Divisions, Subsidiaries, Business Associations ] ]

Format

Guardian America is only available online, although Guardian Weekly, an international version of The Guardian is available in print and online.

Ownership

Guardian America is Controlled by Guardian News and Media (GNM). GNM is controlled by Guardian Media Group (GMG), which is controlled by the Scott Trust, a charitable organisation which aims to ensure the editorial independence of the publications and Web Sites of GMG. [ [http://www.gmgplc.co.uk/ Home | Guardian Media Group ] ]

Other international versions of the Guardian

Guardian Weekly

Guardian Weekly is similar to Guardian America in that it is not UK focused, although Guardian Weekly provides a more international focus, and is only updated weekly (Guardian America carries breaking news).

Guardian Abroad

Guardian Abroad is designed to provide information (not news) to British expatriates. It is, therefore, very different from Guardian Weekly and, even more so, Guardian America.

America on Comment is Free

Background

Comment is Free (CiF) is the comment part of the Guardian and is named after a quote by veteran Guardian editor CP Scott: "Comment is free, but facts are sacred". It is a site where Guardian writers publish a comment article then users respond, in the manner of blogs. This is different from Guardian talk, where the discussions are stared by Guardian Unlimited users. [ http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060817macdonald/ "Comment is Free," but designing communities is hard ]

America on CiF

As of 28th October 2007 United States is the most frequent topic (with 932 articles). The second most frequent topic is Iraq (which the USA is heavily involved in). There are also many articles about George Bush.

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