Mass media in Yemen

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Yemen's Ministry of Information influences the mass media through its control of printing presses, granting of newspaper subsidies, and ownership of the country's only television and radio stations. Yemen has nine government-controlled, 50 independent, and 30 party-affiliated newspapers. There are approximately 90 magazines, 50 percent of which are private, 30 percent government-controlled, and 20 percent party-affiliated. The government controls the content of news broadcasts and edits coverage of televised parliamentary debates.

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Yemen's government usually monitors and blocks political and sexually explicit Web sites. [1] By law and regulation, newspapers and magazines must be government-licensed, and their content is restricted. There have been reports of journalists being physically attacked, as well as arrested and detained. [2] The government gives reasons that such detained journalists are "opposing the law and calling for destruction of infrastructure" and supports some examples as in Shia insurgency in Yemen and retaliations against unity.

The official national news agency is the Saba News Agency.

Printed media

Yemen started its ear with printing press in 1853 when the British occupation authorities entered the first printer in Aden to cover its needs of administration, it also sent a number of prisoner to India to train of the manual characters alignment for operating the printing press which was printed by Arabic and English. Printings press expanded in Aden.

There are over 20 licensed newspapers and magazines in Yemen among them are in the following table. [3] [4]

Newspaper/MagazineTypeLanguageHeadquarterStatus
Yemen Post [5] Independent newspaper & online news portal English Sana'aonline
Al-Ayyam [6] Independent daily Arabic Aden Locally blocked*
Al-Sahwa [7] Islamist weeklyArabic/EnglishAdenonline
Al-Thawra [8] Government-ownedArabic Sana'a online
Al-Jumhuryah [8] Government-ownedArabic Taiz offline
Yemen Observer [9] IndependentEnglish/ArabicSana'aonline
Yemen Times [10] Independent weeklyEnglishSanaaonline
Al-Motamar [11] Government-ownedArabic/EnglishSana'aonline
Al-Thawri (Al-Eshteraki) [12] Weekly Socialist PartyArabicAdenonline
14th October [13] Government-ownedEnglish/ArabicAdenoffline
Telecoms & IT magazine [14] Government-ownedArabicSana'aoffline

Television and radio

Yemen has around 17 television channels, 4 channels owned by the government. These channels are:

First radio service began in Yemen in 1947. [15] There are more than 10 radio channels most of them broadcasting in the medium waves, except for San'a radio channel that also broadcasts in the short waves, and locally the FM. [16] [17] [18] [19]

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References

  1. ↑ YemenNet Arabic web site, the reasons for choosing YemeNet Archived 18 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine , (read the discussion page for more clarification)
  2. ↑ Yemen country profile. Library of Congress Federal Research Division (August 2008). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ "Yemen - World Newspapers and Magazines - Worldpress.org". worldpress.org.
  4. ↑ "Arabic news website". sahafa.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2009.
  5. ↑ "Yemen Post Newspaper online- EDITORIAL, LOCAL, INTERVIEW, REPORT, SOCIAL, BUSINESS, HEALTH, OPINION, YEMEN IN THE NEWS, MIDDLE EAST, INTERNATIONAL". yemenpost.net.
  6. ↑ "صحيفة الأيام -". al-ayyam.info.
  7. ↑ "الصحوة نت". alsahwa-yemen.net.
  8. 1 2 "صحيفة الثورة". althawranews.net.
  9. ↑ "Yemen observer". yobserver.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2009.
  10. ↑ "Yemen Times". yementimes.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  11. ↑ "Almotamar Net, Published by General People's Congress (GPC)". almotamar.net.
  12. ↑ "www.aleshteraki.net". aleshteraki.net.
  13. ↑ "صحيفة 14 أكتوبر للصحافة و الطباعة و النشر". Archived from the original on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  14. ↑ "مجلة تكنولوجيا الاتصالات والمعلومات - تصدر عن وزارة الاتصالات وتقنية المعلومات". مجلة تكنولوجيا الاتصالات والمعلومات.
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  16. ↑ The media in Yemen Archived 23 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine , a brief history and general overview about the media, press, television and radio.
  17. ↑ Radio Frequencies.
  18. ↑ "Search Results for English SWL Broadcasters at 1042". hfradio.org.
  19. ↑ "RadioStationWorld - Yemen - Radio and Television". radiostationworld.com.

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