Gulf Daily News
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Berliner |
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| Owner | Al Hilal Group |
| Publisher | Al Hilal Group |
| Editor | George Williams |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Headquarters | Manama, Bahrain |
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| Website: www.gulf-daily-news.com | |
The Gulf Daily News is an English-language newspaper published in the Kingdom of Bahrain by Al Hilal Group. It is distributed locally in Bahrain as well as other Gulf states. It is owned by the Al Hilal Group, which publishes 13 other newspapers and magazines, including the local Arabic newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej. The paper, which is one of six daily newspapers in Bahrain, calls itself "The Voice of Bahrain". The name is abbreviated the GDN.
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[edit] History
The Gulf Daily News was the first daily English newspaper to be published in Bahrain. It was founded in March 1978 by the Al Hilal Group. Until the publishing of Bahrain Tribune, the paper held the status as Bahrain's only English newspaper.
The paper was created with a focus to provide news to the English speaking residents of Bahrain comprised mainly of British, Americans, Filipinos, Indians and Pakistanis. The staff are a mixture of Bahrainis, British, Filipinos and Indians.
Traditionally, the Gulf Daily News was pro-government, but with the political reforms instigated after 2001, it now includes Islamists as well as liberals on its staff. The newspaper has several columnists who write regularly about local issues, including Les Horton, Amira Al Hussaini, Ali Al Saeed and Tariq Khonji.
[edit] Reporters
The GDN currently has some of the Gulf's widely known writers working for it, namely the following: Indian Soman Baby, Bahraini Mohammed Al A'ali, British Rebecca Torr, Fillipina Eunice del Rosario, Bahraini Tariq Khonji, Bahraini Sara Sami, British Sara Horton, Indian Begena George, Bahraini Kanwal Tariq Hameed, Bahraini Mohammed Aslam, Scottish Geoffrey Bew, Indian Mandeep Singh, Indian Alistair Baptista and British Zoya Pasha.
Reporters American Richard Moore and Indian Vinitha Vishwanath died in 2006.
[edit] GDN today
The Gulf Daily News is the most prominent current Bahrain daily newspaper. The newspaper is currently owned by the Al Hilal Group. The paper is based in Bahrain with its editorial offices located at Isa Town and commercial offices in Exhibition Road.
The paper has a paid circulation of 10,000 copies. It runs to an average of 40 colour and black and white pages each day. News content is primarily local, political and social news but the paper also features international business and social news deemed to be of interest to its readership.
[edit] Major sections
The newspaper is organized in four sections:
- 1. News
- Includes International, National, Business, Sports, Weather.
- 2. Opinion
- Includes Editorials, Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor.
- 3. Features
- Includes Cinema schedules, Local events, Crossword/Games, Cartoons, Channel schedules.
- 4. Classifieds
[edit] Style
The paper has a page size of 36 cm x 26 cm and a column width of 3.45 cm with 7 columns per page. It is printed via Web Offset and has a 100 lpi (Black & White and colour) screen
[edit] Web presence
The GDN has had a strong presence on the web , and has been ranked one of the top web sites in Bahrain[citation needed]. It has a policy of keeping articles freely available. Old edititons of the paper can be accessed through the archive section of the web page.
