Tishreen

Tishreen
تشرين
Type Daily
Founder(s) Tishreen Organization for Press and Publishing
Publisher Al Wahda institution
Editor-in-chief Samira Al Masalmeh
Founded 1975
Political alignment Ba'athism
Language Arabic
Headquarters Damascus
Sister newspapers Syria Times
Al Thawra
Website Tishreen

Tishreen (in Arabic تشرين meaning October) is one of the state-owned Arabic daily newspapers published in Syria.[1][2] The daily is based in Damascus.[3]

History and profile

Tishreen was first published in October 1975[4] in addition to two other state-owned dailies, namely Al Baath and Al Thawra, which were launched earlier.[5][6] The daily was named after Arab-Israeli war in October 1973.[5][7] Tishreen Organization for Press and Publishing is the former publisher of the daily.[5] Tishreen Organization also published Syria Times, a defunct English daily and a current e-newspaper.[5] Later Al Wahda institution became the publisher of both publications in addition to Al Thawra.[8]

In 1997, Tishreen launched its website.[9] The 1992 circulation of the paper was 75,000 copies.[3] Daily circulation of Tishreen was nearly 60,000 in the mid-2000s.[5] The paper's online version was the 48ht most visited website for 2010 in the MENA region.[10]

Although the daily is owned by the state, it has a critical stance on local news, especially in regard to corruption and mismanagement.[11] By 2004 the paper became a platform to support for the charities in the country along with Al Thawra.[12]

Mohammad Kheir Al Wadi served as the editor-in-chief of Tishreen.[13] The current editor-in-chief is Samira Al Masalmeh who was appointed to the post in January 2012.[14] She is the first female editor-in-chief in the country.[14] Tishreen also has an English news portal, Syria Millennium, which is accessed through its website.[15]

Contents

Mohammad Kheir Al Wadi, then editor-in-chief, wrote in January 2000 "Zionism created the Holocaust myth to blackmail and terrorize the world's intellectuals and politicians."[13]

Incidents

The website of Tishreen was hacked by unknown groups in late April 2011.[16] In December 2012, Naji Assaad, a journalist for the daily, was assassinated in Damascus allegedly by opposition forces who have been fighting against the Assad government in the country since 2011.[17]

See also

List of newspapers in Syria

References

  1. ↑ Judith Pies; Philip Madanat (June 2011). "Media Accountability Practices Online in Syria". MediaAct (10/2011). Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  2. ↑ David Commins; David W. Lesch (5 December 2013). Historical Dictionary of Syria. Scarecrow Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-8108-7966-9. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Arvind Singhal; Vijay Krishna (1994). "Syria". In Yahya R. Kamalipour; Hamid Mowlana. Mass Media in the Middle East: A Comprehensive Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 265. Retrieved 2 October 2013. – via Questia (subscription required)
  4. ↑ Salam Kawakibi (2010). "The Private Media in Syria". University of Amsterdam and Hivos. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Alan George (6 September 2003). Syria: Neither Bread Nor Freedom. Zed Books. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-84277-213-3. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Media sustainability index 2006/2007". IREX. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Miriam Cooke (14 August 2007). Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official. Duke University Press. p. 8. ISBN 0-8223-4035-6. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Syria's Pavilion Best at Tehran's International Exhibition of the Press and News Agencies". Syrian Arab News Agency. 3 November 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  9. ↑ George, Alan (October 2000). "Syrian Surfers Take to the Net". The Middle East. Retrieved 2 October 2013. – via Questia (subscription required)
  10. ↑ "Forbes Releases Top 50 MENA Online Newspapers; Lebanon Fails to Make Top 10". Jad Aoun. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  11. ↑ "Syria". The Arab Press Network. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  12. ↑ Laura Ruiz de Elvira (2012). "State-Charities Relations in Syria: between Reinforcement, Control and Coercion". Civil Society and the State in Syria: The Outsourcing of Social Responsibility. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Robert S. Wistrich. "Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger". IPFW. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "The Norwegian Embassy meets Tishreen newspaper's female editor-in-chief". Norwegian Embassy. 16 February 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  15. ↑ "Syria Millennium". Tishreen. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  16. ↑ "Websites of Tishreen Newspaper and People's Assembly Hacked". SANA. 29 April 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2013. – via Highbeam (subscription required)
  17. ↑ "Pro-government newspaper journalist killed in Syria". Doha Centre for Media Freedom. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2013.