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Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in print by John H. Johnson in November 1951 in Chicago , Illinois, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".
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Under the new name, the magazine was published for six years until it was canceled again in 1976. The company began publishing Ebony magazine in November 1945. Ebony focused on African-American community, culture, and achievements. The magazine quickly became successful, at one time gaining more than 1.3 million readers.
Robert Edward "Bob" Johnson (August 13, 1922 in Montgomery, Alabama – January 1996 in Chicago) was Associate Publisher and Executive Editor of JET Magazine.He joined the JET staff in February 1953, two years after it was founded by Publisher John H. Johnson.
Back in 2019, the original owners, Johnson Publishing Company, filed for bankruptcy. Both Ebony and Jet Magazine were sold in 2016, theGrionotes, to the Texas-based company now also facing bankruptcy.
A baby who was born on a Jet Airways flight from Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to Kochi, India, on Sunday has been awarded free plane tickets for life, courtesy of the airline.
The Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company (MT&T, later MTT) was founded around 1910 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and provided telecommunications to Nova Scotia until 1998 when it merged with the Island Telephone Company, NBTel, and NewTel Communications to form Aliant (now Bell Aliant).