The New Nation: A voice that echoes people’s voice

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Shahjahan Mozumder :
The New Nation began its journey as a weekly in 1978. It was subsequently launched as an independent daily in 1981. Based thereon, the age of this newspaper is about 36 years. It is one of the oldest English dailies in the country. It enjoys a wide range of circulation in both print and online format. It caters its readers all that they want.
The New Nation is an independent daily, national in character, upholds national interests above all, and do not compromise its principles even under pressure. The 16-page daily includes 2-page Business and Finance, 2-page Sports, one page National (District News), one page Chittagong Special, one page Entertainment, one page International, and one page Campus. On Friday, the paper contains 20 pages to meet our readers’ demand.
The New Nation gives coverage to national and international news, sports news of all disciplines of home and abroad, important business and financial matters, and education and literature apart from Editorial page.
It is a self-governing newspaper, reflecting the events taking place everyday in the country and the world with the objective of keeping our readers informed of the ‘inside stories’ of the stories. It does not subscribe to the interests of any particular group or syndicate.
A newspaper contains news, other informative articles and usually advertising. A newspaper is usually printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. The news organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Most newspapers now publish online as well as in print. The online versions are called online newspapers or news sites. Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly. News magazines are also weekly, but they have a magazine format.
It is a privately owned newspaper, with Barrister Mainul Hosein as Chairman of the Editorial Board. He is an eminent lawyer of the country and an outspoken personality. He was Adviser of the Caretaker Government during the period from 2006 November to 2008 December. He worked hard to contribute to the end of the crisis, which was about to cripple the country’s economy and the march to democracy.
Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia was the founder of the New Nation. Many renowned journalists worked in this daily. They are Motahar Hossain Siddiqui, A B M Musa, Hasan Sayeed, Alamgir Mohiuddin, Fazle Rashid, Enamul Huq, Md. Amanullah, Golam Tahaboor, Mahbubul Alam, Amanullah Kabir, Rahmat Ali, Moazzem Hossain, Mujibul Huq, Md. Akmal Hossain, Wahidul Haque, Ahsan Ahmad ASK, Hasnat Abdul Hye, among others. A.M. Mufazzal, an experienced and renowned journalist of the community is the present Editor.
The newspaper is truly liberal, independent minded, secular and forward looking. It is staffed by experienced journalists with new blood. In fact, the newspaper set the tone and tenor and standard of English language journalism. It is the second largest English daily newspaper in the country, popular to the both urban and rural people.
The credibility of the newspaper is very high. It will continue to serve national interests and will not compromise its principles.

 (Md. Shahjahan Mozumder is the News Editor of The New Nation)

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