An old-fashioned newspaper war is brewing in the nation’s capital.
The Washington Star, a newspaper that stopped printing more than 40 years ago, has started publishing again under the ownership of Dovid Efune, a media executive and publisher of The New York Sun.
It comes just weeks after the politics site NOTUS announcedit would rebrandas The Star and expand its mission to cover local news and sports in Washington.
The two closely named rivals plan to take on a much more established competitor: The Washington Post, which is owned by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos andrecently cut its staffby a third.
“We’re reviving one of the great and epic rivalries of American journalism,” Mr. Efune said in an interview. “For decades, The Star was The Washington Post’s fiercest competitor and an important editorial and ideological counterweight in the press in our nation’s capital.”
The Washington Star was a conservative-leaning afternoon newspaper that published for 128 years until it went into bankruptcy andshut downin 1981. The Post snapped up The Washington Star’s former headquarters and printing presses in the bankruptcy sale.
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