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Adelson wants Maariv or new free daily

American billionaire Sheldon Adelson still wants to buy the Israeli Maariv newspaper. At the same time, however, he is planning another free newspaper Israel Today, that will launch in June if the Maariv deal doesn’t succeed. The initial circulation of the home-delivered paper by publisher NewsCo will be 250,000. There is now only one free dail: Israeli, which is jointly owned by Adelson and Shlomo Ben-Zvi – both partners are engaged in legal battles over the title. Also there is a plan by Eli Azur, owner of the Jerusalem Post, and Dudi Wiessman, to launch a free paper.

Source: Haaretz

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  1. Newspaper Innovation » Blog Archive » Israel anti-Adelson law and other issues Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 12:09 am

    [...] the bill is Maariv, a paper losing lots of money, and two years ago almost acquired by Adelson (see previous post). Together with Yediot Achronot, Maariv hire a lobbyist, Keren Barak, to convince Knesset members [...]

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