Liberty Tree
The Liberty Tree is a fictional newspaper that serves Liberty City in various Grand Theft Auto games. The Liberty Tree has been "Promoting Family values for over 50 years", and has existed at least 50 years of service, with their slogan being "Yesterday's News Today". Each issue costs $1.00 in Liberty City, and can be read online as well. It is a play on The New York Times.
Events
GTA Liberty City Stories
The map that accompanied the game had a map provided by Liberty Tree. Liberty Tree featured prominently in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories through Ned Burner, who pretends to be a preacher. He gives missions to protagonist Toni Cipriani, saying that they will help save him. The first mission is to retrieve a briefcase from an FBI informant before he hands it to the FBI, and then delivering it to the Liberty Tree offices. Cipriani then steals another briefcase containing diamonds, and then creates chaos on Staunton Island whilst driving a Firetruck. The final mission for Burner was killing three celebrities (Faith W., DB-P and Black Lightman) on their way to an interview with Liberty City Free Radio. Burner would report on each story: the first about an athlete on steroids, the stealing of diamonds, chaos on Staunton Island and the death of three celebrities. Burner would eventually be killed by Cipriani.
GTA III
Liberty Tree does not feature during Grand Theft Auto III, however a Liberty Tree website was used as a teaser site. Articles appeared on the characters such as Salvatore Leone, Toni Cipriani, Joey Leone, Luigi Goterelli, Donald Love, Barry Harcross and Mayor Miles O’Donovan.
GTA IV
In Grand Theft Auto IV, the Liberty Tree can be read on the in-game internet. It shows the happenings of the city, along with Niko's exploits.
News Reporters
- Adam Tedman
- Amy Salzburg
- Andre Perkins
- Anul Garbaskar
- Benjamin Mill
- Beverly Clamhopper
- Bill Tautz
- Bob Jefferson
- Bob Malkin
- Brian Robinson
- Chris Carruthers
- Clint Glen
- E. Crume
- Frederic Pierce
- Frenchie Cockmaven
- Gaylord Morrisen
- Gregory Lau
- Howard Child
- Irene Kelly
- Jayne Kwiatowski
- Jeffrey Veselik
- Joel Stahlman
- Johnnie Blain
- Johnny Ryan
- Julius Cohen
- Kelly Sue DeConnick
- Ken Dellamonica
- Kristen Burns
- Louie Schaffer
- Mark Reed
- Morgan Merryweather
- Ned Burner
- Nicholas Morris
- Paul Civille
- Paul Marchiando
- Paul Mill
- Peter Armstrong
- Stan Wayridge
- Thomas Jones
- Thomas Shaw
- Thomas Stewart
- Trudy Fink
- Walt Jefferson
- Walt Karl
- William Mazyck
Newspaper sections
- Business
- Classifieds
- Column
- Comics
- Entertainment
- Employment
- Forum
- GORE
- Horoscope
- Hypocrisy
- Lifestyle
- Lottery
- Marketplace
- News
- Puzzles
- Real Estate
- Reviews
- Sports
- Traffic
- Travel
- TV Listings
See Also
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