Former United States’ Secretary of State, Senator Hilary Clinton, has
lauded the partnership between the New York Times and New Telegraph,
for the publication of the international edition of the highly reputable
American newspaper in Nigeria.In a telephone conversation with Chairman and Publisher of New Telegraph, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, Clinton, who was a senator representing New York in the American Congress, said the partnership signalled cooperation between two great institutions. She expressed the hope that the partnership with the New York Times would help New Telegraph to deepen democracy, as well as promote justice and human rights in Africa’s most populous nation.
The former Secretary of State has been contacted by New Telegraph newspaper to deliver its first anniversary lecture in March, next year, and talks are on to concretise this.
The international edition of the New York Times will make its debut in Nigeria on Monday, October 6, as an insert in New Telegraph newspaper. Political and business leaders in Nigeria are already excited about this development, which offers them a window to market their products and services to the international community.
The Board of Editors of New Telegraph has since been working round the clock to ensure a hitch-free take-off of the weekly insert and is leaving nothing to chance.
The International New York Times insert, which is to be published every Monday, is sequel to the granting of an exclusive licence by the New York Times to New Telegraph, to print and distribute the publication in Nigeria every week for the next three years. As a result, business and political leaders in Nigeria will, from next Monday, be able to join their counterparts across the globe in reading one of the world’s most reputable newspapers.
The insert will be a cobranded weekly section in New Telegraph, in the layout and typography of the New York Times domestic edition. It shall be composed of news coverage, business, arts, science, commentary, colour photos and graphics about the United States, world affairs, culture and social trends.
The deal with the New York Times (NYT) is the first of its kind by the newspaper with any newspaper organisation in Africa and it entails New Telegraph carrying the 12-page insert of which is produced by chief correspondents and editors of NYT, every Monday for the next three years.
Also as part of the deal, New Telegraph will display a PDF version of each issue of the insert on the newspaper’s website, http://www.newtelegraphonline. com, for a period of no more than 14 days following the first publication. The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded in New York City in September 18, 1851, and has continuously published since then. It has won 112 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organisation in the United States.
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