Journalism for Print and Electronic Media

1. Shaolin Shaon
Exploring International Print Media
Top 10 International Newspapers
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2. 4. The Washington Post (USA)
• largest and the oldest newspaper of Washington
D.C.
• founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins.
• In 1975, launched three new weekly zoned
sections, the Maryland, District and Virginia
Weeklies.
• These three sections were later transformed into
10 local news sections to provide greater
coverage of community news, activities and
features of special interest to readers living in
the regions served.
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3. The Washington Post (USA)
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Nash Holdings
Founder(s) Stilson Hutchins
Publisher Fred Ryan
Editor Martin Baron
Fred Ryan

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Managing editors
Emilio Garcia-Ruiz
Cameron Barr
Tracy Grant
Staff writers ~800 (journalists)
Founded December 6, 1877; 142 years ago
Language English
Headquarters  1301 K Street NW
 Washington, D.C., U.S. 2007
Country United States

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Circulation
356,768 (Daily, 2015)
838,014 (Sunday, 2013)
1,000,000 (Digital, 2018)
ISSN 0190-8286
OCLC number 2269358
Website washingtonpost.com

6. 5. China Daily (China)
• Established on June 1, 1981,
• an English-language daily newspaper in
China.
• Also known as “Window to China”
• it is headquartered in Beijing.
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7. China Daily (China)
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)  Communist Party of China
 State Council Information
Office (escrow)
Founded 1 June 1981
Political alignment Communist Party of China
Headquarters 15 Huixin Street East, Chaoyang
District, Beijing
Circulation 900,000 (600,000 international, 300,000
domestic)

8. 6. The Times
of India
(India)
• started on
November 3,
1838
• with the name of
“The Bombay
Times and
Journal of
Commerce”.
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9. The Times of India
(India)
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) The Times Group
Publisher Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
Editor-in-chief Jaideep Bose
Founded 3 November 1838; 181 years ago
Language English
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Country India
Circulation 2,640,770 daily[1] (as of January–June
2019)
Sister newspapers The Economic Times
Navbharat Times
Maharashtra Times
Ei Samay
Mumbai Mirror
Bhubaneswar Times
ISSN 0971-8257
OCLC number 23379369
Website timesofindia.com

10. 7. The Sydney Morning
Herald (Australia)
• Founded in 1831 as Sydney Herald
• was founded by Englishmen Alfred Ward
Stephens, Frederick Stokes, and William
McGarvie, who all worked for the Sydney
Gazette.
• In 1995, the company launched smh.com.au, the
newspaper’s web edition
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11. The Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia)
Headquarters 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, New South
Wales
Circulation 104,000 (February 2016)
Sister newspapers  The Sun-Herald (Sunday edition)
 The Age (Melbourne)
ISSN 0312-6315
OCLC number 226369741
Website www.smh.com.au
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Compact
Owner(s)
Founder(s) Ward Stephens, Frederick
Stokes and William
McGarvie
Editor Lisa Davies
Founded 18 April 1831; 188 years
ago (as Sydney Herald)
Language English

12. 8. The Asahi
Shimbun
(Japan)
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Began
publication in
osaka on 25
january 1879
As a small-
print, four-
page
illustrated
paper
Sold for one
sen (a
hundredth of a
yen) a copy
Had a
circulation of
approximately
3,000 copies.

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Type
Daily newspaper
Company type: Private
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)
Repurchased shares (25%)
Murayama family (21.02%; 10% through the KOSETSU Museum of Art)
Ueno family (total 14.22% by Shōichi Ueno's death in 2016)
TV Asahi (11.88%)
Toppan (7.31%)
Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdcorp (2.31%)
Founder(s)
Murayama Ryōhei
Ueno Riichi
Founded 25 January 1879
Political alignment
Centre-left
Liberalism
Headquarters Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Country Japan
Circulation 7,960,000 (2010)6,572,195 (2016)
Website
www.asahi.com(Japanese)
www.asahi.com/ajw (English)

14. 9. Dawn
(Pakistan)
• most widely read English-language
newspaper
• founded by Quaid-i-Azam
Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi,
India, on 26 October 1941 as a
mouthpiece for the Muslim
League.
• The first issue was printed at Latifi
Press on 12 October 1942.
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Launched 25 May 2007 (Test Transmission)
23 July 2007 (live)
Network Dawn
Owned by Dawn Media Group
Picture format 4:3 (576i, SDTV)
Country Pakistan
Language Urdu
Broadcast area Pakistan
International
Headquarters Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Sister channel(s) CityFM89
Website Dawn

16. 10. Zaman (Turkey)
• Founded in 1986
• first Turkish daily to go online in 1995
• a major, high-circulation daily newspaper in Turkey.
• known to be strongly related to the Gülen movement
of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, but Gülen
himself is not the owner.
• Although it declares itself as in support of democracy
and secularism, Zaman is generally regarded as
Islamic, or Islamist, by most sources.
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Berliner
Owner(s) Feza Publications
Editor-in-chief Abdülhamit Bilici (October 2015 – March 5,
2016)
Founded 1986
Political alignment Before seizure: Gülen movement;
After seizure: pro-government[1]

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Language Turkish
Headquarters Fevzi Çakmak Mah.
A. Taner Kışlalı Cad. No:6
34194 Bahçelievler
City İstanbul
Country Turkey
Circulation 2,424[2] (as of 4 April 2016)
Website www.zaman.com.tr

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