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The Ethiopian Herald
TypeDaily newspaper
PublisherEthiopian Press Agency
Editor-in-chiefWorku Belachew
Managing editorWakuman Kudama
Founded1943[1]
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
Websitewww.ethpress.gov.et/herald/index.php

The Ethiopian Herald is a government-owned English-language newspaper published by the Ethiopian Press Agency, which also publishes the Amharic-language Addis Zemen.

It was launched as a weekly on 3 July 1943.[2] Jan Hoy Simpson, an Englishman, was its first editor. Later editors were from the United States. The first Ethiopian editor was Ato Yacob Wolde Mariam in 1960.[3][4] It became a daily at the end of 1958, as did Addis Zemen.[2]

Ownership

Ethiopian Press Agency
Formation1940
HeadquartersAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
Websitehttps://press.et/herald/

The Ethiopian Herald is owned by the Ethiopian Press Agency, a public media enterprise operating in Ethiopia, which was established in 1940. It is the sole publisher of the only daily Amharic-language newspaper known as Addis Zemen. The enterprise also publishes The Ethiopian Herald, a daily newspaper except on Mondays in the English language. Among its tabloids are the weeklies: Berissa in the local Oromo language and Al-Alem in the international Arabic languages. The agency has yet another bi-monthly magazine, known as Zemen in Amharic. With a current staff of more than 300, the Ethiopian Press Agency runs its own business affairs through own-generated incomes.

References

  1. ^ Getahun, Solomon Addis; Kassu, Wudu Tafete (2014). Culture and Customs of Ethiopia. Culture and Customs of Africa. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-313-08606-9. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b Reta, Meseret Chekol (2013). The Quest for Press Freedom: One Hundred Years of History of the Media in Ethiopia. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. pp. 101–102. ISBN 978-0-7618-6001-3. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Ethiopia profile - Media". BBC News. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  4. ^ Pankhurst, Richard; Zekaria, Ahmed; Beyene, Taddese, eds. (1990). Proceedings of the First National Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Addis Ababa, April 11–12, 1990. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. pp. 103–104. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

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