Dhaka Tribune

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Dhaka Tribune
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TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)2A Media Limited
PublisherKazi Anis Ahmed
EditorZafar Sobhan
Founded2013
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersFR Tower, 8/C Panthpath, Shukrabad, Dhaka 1207.
Websitewww.dhakatribune.com

The Dhaka Tribune is a Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper. It is published from Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the largest circulating English language newspapers in the country, alongside The Daily Star and New Age. The Dhaka Tribune is known for relatively liberal views and coverage of issues affecting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Bangladesh-India relations, women's rights and LGBTQ rights. In 2019, a Dhaka Tribune journalist was arrested and sued under the Digital Security Act for reporting voting irregularities in a by-election.[1] The paper has cited Bangladesh's defamation laws as an obstacle to reporting about corruption in the country's security forces.[2]

History[]

The newspaper began publication on April 19, 2013.[3] The newspaper started as a broadsheet before going compact on March 1, 2015. [4] Since May 1, 2019, it has reverted to broadsheet editions.[5] Since 2015, it has been the media partner of the Dhaka Literary Festival.[6]

Ownership[]

Gemcon Group is the largest shareholder in the Dhaka Tribune. Gemcon is run by the family of Kazi Nabil Ahmed, a member of Bangladesh's parliament from the ruling Awami League.

Staff[]

The newspaper's founding and chief editor is Zafar Sobhan, a 2005 Young Global Leader and 2008 Yale World Fellow.[7][8] Sobhan was formerly the Op-Ed Editor of The Daily Star and has been a columnist for The Guardian, The Sunday Guardian, Time and Outlook.[9] During the 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar against the Rohingya, Dhaka Tribune journalists worked with British journalist Jacob Judah in reporting directly from the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.[10] The newspaper's columnists have included Prince Hassan bin Talal and Arundhati Roy among many others.[11][12] The publisher of the newspaper is Kazi Anis Ahmed, an author of Bangladeshi writing in English and a well known commentator on Bangladesh in international media. Ahmed's articles have been published in The New York Times,[13] TIME,[14] The Guardian,[15] Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal,[16] Nikkei Asian Review,[17] and Politico.[18]

Editorial position[]

The newspaper describes its editorial policy as liberal. It actively supports equal gender rights in Bangladesh.[19] Several articles have been published by the paper which call for anti-gay laws in Bangladesh to be repealed.[20] Its editorial in response to a documentary about corruption in the country's army was cited by journalist Tim Sebastian during an interview with Bangladesh government advisor Gowher Rizvi on DW,[21] with Sebastian quoting the newspaper and saying that "The current state of media and defamation law in Bangladesh, and how it is interpreted by the judiciary, makes it unwise for any Bangladeshi media house to venture into any kind of meaningful comment on the controversy".[22]

Digital media[]

Straight Talk is a digital talk show hosted by the editor of the newspaper on YouTube. Guests have included Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury and Mohammed Hanif among many others.[23][24]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.thedailystar.net/bangladesh-national-election-2018/khulna-journalist-arrested-under-digital-security-act-1681558
  2. ^ https://www.dw.com/en/gowher-rizvi-on-conflict-zone/av-56527538
  3. ^ "Dhaka Tribune launched". Dhaka Tribune. 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
  4. ^ "Introducing the compact Dhaka Tribune". Dhaka Tribune. 2015-03-01. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
  5. ^ Dhaka Tribune - From this May, Dhaka Tribune is switching..., retrieved 2019-09-28
  6. ^ DESIGNARIUM. "Dhaka Lit Fest". dhakalitfest.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  7. ^ http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/zafar-sobhan
  8. ^ http://worldfellows.yale.edu/zafar-sobhan
  9. ^ http://worldfellows.yale.edu/zafar-sobhan
  10. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/09/arakan-rohingya-militants-watch-refugees-myanmar
  11. ^ https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/05/15/op-ed-protecting-and-preserving-jerusalem-s-identity-is-an-international-responsibility
  12. ^ https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/05/07/op-ed-we-need-a-government
  13. ^ "Articles by K. Anis Ahmed". Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  14. ^ "Beating Terrorism in Bangladesh Requires Public and Personal Commitment". 11 July 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  15. ^ "Things we don't write: K Anis Ahmed on the murdered writers of Bangladesh". 9 December 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  16. ^ "Bangladesh's Vanishing Justice". 30 April 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  17. ^ "Bangladesh faces growing strain in Rohingya crisis". 13 December 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  18. ^ "'Tis but a modest migration proposal". 19 September 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  19. ^ "Make equal rights everyday reality". Dhaka Tribune. 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2015-09-14.
  20. ^ "Bangladesh newspaper urges repeal of anti-gay law". 76 CRIMES. 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  21. ^ https://www.dw.com/en/gowher-rizvi-on-conflict-zone/av-56527538
  22. ^ https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/editorial/2021/02/03/ed-why-the-silence
  23. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu4n5ev5wTs
  24. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MwRvdD1uzI
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