Haifa National News
| Haifa National News | |
| Type | National news service |
|---|---|
| Editor | Tamer Paladino |
| Founded | 1602 AN |
| Headquarters | Abeis |
The Haifa National News was the national news service of the Free State of Haifa, published from the republic's founding in 1602 AN. It carried news of the state's commerce, government, and foreign affairs, and was published alongside a partner paper in Keybir-Aviv, The Daily Citizen, and a companion broadcast service, Haifa TV. Tamer Paladino, the City Official of Keybir-Aviv, edited the News from its second edition.
History
The Haifa National News was established in 1602 AN, in the first weeks of the Free State of Haifa, as the new republic's news service. Its first edition was carried under another editor; Tamer Paladino, the City Official of Keybir-Aviv, took the paper over from its second edition and conducted it thereafter. It carried bylined reporting from a small staff of correspondents and was published alongside a partner paper in Keybir-Aviv, The Daily Citizen. A companion broadcast service, Haifa TV, carried news to a wider audience; the reading of a new constitution was among the events it broadcast, watched by more than ninety thousand people across Haifa.
The paper ran a series of editions through the republic's early years and lapsed thereafter. Its stories survive in a later archive, and the individual editions have not otherwise been preserved.
Coverage
As the state's own news service the paper's coverage is reportage rather than an independent account, but its surviving archive is the fullest record of public life in the republic. Its reporting included:
- 18.VIII.1602 AN: The flotation of the Haifa Diamond Company on the Hammish exchange, its shares opening at 2.40.
- 18.VIII.1602 AN: The inaugural address of Benjamin Meir as City Official of Abeis.
- 18.X.1602 AN: The opening of the republic's first Parliament, and the foreign-policy debate over the schism between the two Batavian states, in which Ismael Todochev argued for open recognition and Meir for reserve.
- 18.XIV.1602 AN: The purchase of a thirty-percent interest in the Diamond Company by a Passasian regional government, for some ninety-eight obols, lifting the shares to 2.61.
- 18.XIV.1602 AN: The republic's accession to the SCUE and the listing of Haifan firms on the Ham50.
- 18.XIV.1602 AN: Ethnic tension in Keybir-Aviv, where violence between Napian expatriates and Afrikaanian refugees broke out in the district of Little Rosenborg during the Festival of Union, with the organized-crime group known as the Costa Nostra, or the Israat Mob, suspected of involvement.
- 6.II.1603 AN: The republic's purchase of the whaling principality of Walstadt under Todochev, with a feature on its fleet aboard the ironclad Tzarina, and the launch of the Haifan Futsal League.
- 6.VI.1603 AN: The standing of the Wallis Islands under Erlo Sinders as the wealthiest of the republic's regions.
- 18.XII.1604 AN: The treaty of friendship with the Republic of Mercury, signed by Todochev as acting foreign minister during Meir's leave of absence.
- 18.X.1605 AN: The first contested election for the premiership, in which Todochev was returned against Erlo Sinders and the paper's own editor, Paladino.
