Capital Ethiopia

"Capital (magazine)" redirects here. For the German magazine, see Capital (German magazine). For the Albany webzine, see Media in New York's Capital District § Other.
Capital
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Crown Publishing, plc
Editor Teguest Yilma
Founded 1998 (1998)
Website www.capitalethiopia.com

Capital (also known as Capital Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian weekly business newspaper published and distributed by Crown Publishing Plc. It is published once a week, on Sundays. It was established in December 1998 with a pro business perspective, and styles itself "the paper that promotes free enterprise".[1]

Contents

The newspaper has opinions and special segments like the historian Richards Pankhurst's Corner, sports commentary, cartoons, editorials, etc.

Capital subscribers are often from local business community, non governmental organizations, international organizations, academics and individuals. It aims to boost the free press and information flow, while encouraging and nurturing the private sector with necessary information. It promotes ideological changes and development among the civil society for the betterment of the country, and creates employment opportunities, whilst developing professional journalism.[1]

Its managing director and executive editor, Teguest Yilma, was awarded the National Order of Merit (France) on 16 December 2009 at the embassy of France in Addis Ababa.[2][3][4][5]

Its main competitor is Addis Fortune, whose circulation it surpassed in 2007. However, the circulation of the two does not exceed 20,000 out of the 150,000 total newspaper circulation, which itself compares to a national population of over 90,000,000 persons.

References

  1. 1 2 "Capital Ethiopia". Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ethiopia Newspapers – Ethiopia Newspaper & News Media Guide". Abyznewslinks. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Ethiopia Newspapers and News on the Internet". Stanford.edu. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "Ethiopia: 20 newspapers and other news sources, Kidon Media-Link". Kidon. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "3 Ethiopia Newspapers". Newspapers24. Retrieved 17 August 2013.

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