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Liberty Tree logo.

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

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The instruction manual of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, fashioned as an October 1998 issue of the Liberty Tree newspaper.

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 from a confessional box in the cathedral in Bedford Point, 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 on orders from Donald Love as Burner witnessed the killing of Avery Carrington.

Unrelated to the plot, the User Guide for Liberty City Stories is in the form of a copy of the Liberty Tree.

GTA III

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The Liberty Tree building on Staunton Island.

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 on the Liberty Tree website. It shows the happenings of the city, along with Niko's exploits. The Liberty Tree name is found on some Steed trucks. A Liberty Tree newspaper can be seen in certain interiors, with Manny Escuela on the front page.

News reporters

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

Gallery

A Liberty Tree newspaper in GTA III
A Liberty Tree newspaper in GTA IV

A Liberty Tree newspaper in GTA IV
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External link

Liberty Tree teaser website for GTA III

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 ===GTA III===
-[[Image:Liberty Tree building.jpg|left|thumb|The Liberty Tree building on [[Staunton Island]].]]
+[[Image:BedfordPoint-GTA3-southernskyline.jpg|left|thumb|The Liberty Tree building on [[Staunton Island]].]]
 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 in GTA III|characters]] such as [[Salvatore Leone]], Toni Cipriani, [[Joey Leone]], [[Luigi Goterelli]], [[Donald Love]], [[Barry Harcross]] and Mayor [[Miles O’Donovan]].