Commonwealth Press
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Commonwealth Press | |
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| Corporation Profile | |
| Founding Year | 2981[1] |
| Affiliation | Lyran Commonwealth |
| Headquarters | Media City (Donegal IV)[1] |
| Leadership | CEO |
| Product(s) | News services |
| Parent Corporation | Donegal Broadcasting Company[1] |
The Commonwealth Press was one of the largest news organizations in the Lyran Commonwealth.[1][2]
Overview[edit]
Founded in 2981 by Arthur Koura—a disenchanted former member of the Lyran Commonwealth's Propaganda Corps—around the remains of several news services on Donegal, Commonwealth Press was a subsidiary of the mammoth Donegal Broadcasting Company, effectively the print and video version of the holovid parent. CP also shared its parent company's expansive reach, with fully staffed offices on all the major and notable worlds of the Lyran realm.[1][2]
As with many companies, upon the collapse of the Federated Commonwealth and the formation of the Lyran Alliance, Commonwealth Press renamed itself Alliance Press as a sign of support for new Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion. While historically pro–Estates General in its reporting, the "new" Alliance Press increasingly aligned itself with Katherine and her propaganda apparatus which resulted in a sharp drop in both sales and ratings in response to the increasingly biased and deceptive reporting demanded by Katherine and her cronies as the FedCom Civil War turned hot.[1][3]
Desperate to regain the public's trust, after the conclusion the Civil War the company returned to its original name of Commonwealth Press and instigated a massive personnel shakeup from the boardroom down to lowly anchorpersons to try and eliminate pro-Katherine taint. The move was moderately successful, though the loss of personnel in the wake of the reorganization resulted in it being scooped by competitors such as the Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation.[1][3]