I doubt if there is any one paper in New York that is a worthy successor to the Forward. The Novoye Russoye Slovo ( New Russian Word), which is the leading paper in Brighton Beach, is distinctively Russian, with its passion for long opinion pieces, but it lacks the flair of the best Moscow papers. El Diario-La Prensa is the leading Spanish-language paper, with a circulation of fifty thousand, and features a broad range of opinion pieces, from conservative attacks on Fidel Castro to liberal pieces on Central and South America. But by trying to be an umbrella paper for all the Hispanic groups in the city it shows how radically different the interests of the city’s Cubans and Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Colombians are. The various groups are often better served by the imported papers available in Hispanic neighborhoods and at stores like Hotaling’s, just off Times Square, that specialize in out-of-town publications. Robert Buettner Epub there. The Refind Binary File Is Missing Aborting Installation. Caribbeans, too, have New York-based papers, but the imports, like the Gleaner, from Jamaica, are more popular.
Perhaps the most ambitious and among the wealthiest of the ethnic papers is the World Journal, which is a daily financed by a Taiwan conglomerate and is the leading Chinese-language paper in the country. Tih-Wu Wang, the Citizen Kane of the conglomerate, is a gigantic figure in Taipei. A former member of Chiang Kai-shek’s military, he traded on his political and business connections to build a chain of papers in both Taiwan and North America. “The legend is he used to deliver his papers on a bicycle at the start, and now he might as well have a license to print money,” Justin Yu, the World Journal’ s immigration and crime reporter, told me over a long lunch one afternoon on Mott Street. Wang comes on Chinese New Year and holds a banquet at the Sheraton he owns, near LaGuardia. Everyone gets an envelope with a bonus.” T.