- Rome Daily American
Infobox Newspaper
name = Rome Daily American
type = Daily
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foundation =1946 [http://www.asiaing.com/the-american-magazine-june-2007.html Daily American] retrieved April 23, 2008] [ [http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml28.html#d1e944 Papers of John Martin Mecklin] retrieved April 23, 2008] | ceased publication =1984
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headquarters =Rome , Italy
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language = English
website =Rome Daily American was an English language daily newspaper published in
Rome ,Italy which ran from1946 to1984 . [http://www.asiaing.com/the-american-magazine-june-2007.html Daily American] retrieved April 23, 2008] It was started by threeGI s taking advantage of the discontinuation of the publication in Europe of Stars and Stripes, the American Military newspaper which had been published there during and just afterWorld War II . [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777316,00.html?iid=chix-sphere Time magazine] retrieved April 23, 2008] Its model and competitor for sales was theInternational Herald Tribune published in Paris, two days for copies to reach Rome. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=OCzexISJOu0C&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=%22rome+daily+american%22+newspaper+english+-missouri+-summerset&source=web&ots=cG8fcU-kAH&sig=EXyykmEaRWBLKga_CCWvVb84C7I&hl=en Living Abroad in Italy] retrieved April 23, 2008]Forty percent of it was owned by the
CIA as part ofOperation Mockingbird until the early 1970s. The intent of this ownership was to provide cover for CIA operatives and to influence the Italian electorate which was threatening to vote Communist at that time. [ [http://eldib.wordpress.com/category/world Word Press.com] retrieved April 23, 2008] [ [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm Operation Mockingbird] retrieved April 23, 2008]It went bankrupt in 1981. At that time, it was publishing 15,000 papers. Competition from The tabloid International Daily News , in 1977, appeared to hasten its demise. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE1DC1F39F936A25752C1A967948260 NY Times] retrieved April 23, 2008]
Namesakes
The American Magazine , published in Rome in English takes its name from the Rome Daily American. [http://www.asiaing.com/the-american-magazine-june-2007.html Daily American] retrieved April 23, 2008]
Editors
#Michael Keon ? [ [http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=sports1_may19_2007 Manila standard Today] retrieved April 23, 2008]
#James McCartney 1971-1976 [ [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-practice-of-newspaper-management-by-w-parkman-rankin.jsp The Practice of Newspaper Management] retrieved April 23, 2008]
#Christoper P. Winner 1981-1984 [ [http://www.theamericanmag.com/html/cpw/resume.html The American Magazine.com] retrieved April 23, 2008]Notes and references
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