Haveeru Daily

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Haveeru

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Mohamed Zahir Hussain
Editor	Mohamed Shaheeb
Founded	January 1, 1979
Price	MVR 3.0
Headquarters	Malé, Maldives

Website: www.haveeru.com.mv

Haveeru Daily (Dhivehi: ހަވީރު ދުވަހު ނޫސް) is the longest serving daily newspaper in the Maldives, established on January 1, 1979.

1 History
2 The name
3 Milestones
4 External links

[edit] History

When local newspaper "Moonlight" ceased publication on December 9, 1978, Haveeru was registered on December 28, 1978, to fill the gap created by the absence of a newspaper, and with special advice from the president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and financial support from the government of Maldives. The first issue of Haveeru was brought out on January 1, 1979, under the proprietorship of Mohamed Zahir Hussain, who is a close friend of the President and has being serving Minister level positions of the government since 1978, and editorship of Abdulla Sodiq.

[edit] The name

The name Haveeru symbolises the onset of the cool evening time after the heat of the day, which is also the time when the newspaper is brought out. In Dhivehi literature, "haveeru kurun" means the get-together of poets and writers for literary exchanges. Thus, it was decided that the newspaper's name should also symbolise news, information and literary exchanges.

[edit] Milestones

Haveeru is the first newspaper to be printed by offset. The newspaper's efforts at getting its own printing press dates as far back as April 1, 1981, when a private printer declined to publish the newspaper. The newspaper first rolled off Haveeru's own offset press on September 1, 1986, with a new enlarged size of 38x55cm. The size was later increased to 42.5x60.5cm on January 1, 1994.

Haveeru is the first newspaper in Maldives to link up with a foreign news agency, the first such link-up being in Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) in 1985. However, the use of radio teletype receivers was not then a successful venture as news reception was often disrupted by unstable weather. Hence, Haveeru turned towards satellite communications, and the newspaper became the first Maldives daily to establish links, via satellite, to get news and information for the print media.

The last three years were remarkably successful for Haveeru as it became the first newspaper in Maldives to take the innovative step of going online, with its interactive edition, Haveeru Daily Online, established and updated daily on the Internet. An international dimension was given to Haveeru, once again, due to successful employment of modern communications that are set to make the new millennium the Information Age. Haveeru Daily Online was established in January 1997.