Amod (newspaper)

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Weekly Amod
TypeWeekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Founder(s)Mohammed Fazle Rabbi (founding editor)
PublisherBakin Rabbi
Editor-in-chiefBakin Rabbi
EditorShamsun Nehar Rabbi
Founded5 May 1955
Language Bengali
HeadquartersChowdury Para
Cumilla, Bangladesh
Website www.amodbd.com

Amod is a Bengali weekly newspaper published in Comilla, Bangladesh. [1] The long-running community newspaper claims to be the oldest weekly newspaper in the country as it has been published since 5 May 1955. [2] [3]

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Staff

Mohammed Fazle Rabbi, who died 28 November 1994, was the foundingr editor of Amod. [4] Journalists who worked under him were Taheruddin Thakur, Anil Karmaker, and Mobarak Hossain Khan. The newspaper is operated by Rabbi's wife, Shamsun Nehar Rabbi, [5] and son, Bakin Rabbi, who is the printer, publisher and editor-in-chief. [3]

Cumilla market

Although the Weekly Amod has faced competition from other weeklies, Mohammed Fazle Rabbi believed his first serious competitor was Cumilla's first daily newspaper Rupashi Bangla, which started in 1979. [6]

Recognition within Asia

Weekly Amod was recognized in 1985 by UNESCO after three decades of publishing news. [6] [3] The Amod remains competitive. Crispin C. Maslog in the book 5 Successful Asian Community Newspapers writes, "Amod continues to be the leading community newspaper in Comilla because it has been a steady, reliable source of information and the mouthpiece for community opinion in the past three decades." [6] Others say it is the long run of the newspaper that has given it a special authority within the Comilla community. [7]

Notes

  1. Benn's Media Directory: International. Vol. 135–136. Benn Business Information Services. 1988. p. 420.
  2. Gunaratne, Shelton A. (2000). Handbook of the media in Asia. Sage Publications. p. 52. ISBN   0761994270.
  3. 1 2 3 "About Us". Amod. www.weeklyamod.com. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  4. Bangladesh, Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, Establishment Division (1977). Bangladesh District Gazetteers. Vol. 14. Bangladesh Government Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "Bangladesh: Women's Day observed". Comilla: Right Vision News. March 13, 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 Maslog, Crispin C. (1985). 5 Successful Asian Community Newspapers. United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre. pp. 2–4.
  7. Presentations, South and South-East Asia Media Assmebly[sic] for people-to-people understanding. National Media Centre. 1989.

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