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The Windhoek Observer is an English-language Saturday weekly newspaper, published in Namibia by Paragon Investment Holding. It is the country's oldest and largest circulating paper. [1] As of 2009 it had a circulation of 45,000 copies. [2] The Windhoek Observer was founded in 1978 by Hannes Smith and Gwen Lister. [3]
Newspaper Circulation First issued Languages Ownership Website The Namibian: 40,000 (2010) [1] 1985 English, Oshiwambo Free Press of Namibia [2]: www.namibian.com.na: Namibian Sun ...
The Namibian Sun, a weekly newspaper established in 2007 and a daily since 2010, is a tabloid launched to "attract young readers". [3] With the acquisition of John Meinert, Namibia Media Holdings also obtained Namibia's only large printing works. The Namibian, New Era and Namibia Today, were all printed at NMH. [6]
Except for the most widely circulated newspaper, The Namibian, [1] which is owned by a trust, the other mentioned private newspapers are part of the Democratic Media Holdings. [2] Weekly publications are the tabloid Informanté owned by TrustCo, Windhoek Observer, Namibia Economist, as well as the regional Namib Times.
Johannes Martin "Hannes" Smith (17 March 1933 – 5 August 2008), affectionately known as Smithie, was a Namibian journalist, editor and publisher. [1] He was first reporter at, then the editor of, the Windhoek Advertiser until 1978 when he and Gwen Lister founded the Windhoek Observer, the country's only Saturday paper at that time.
He has worked as a deputy news editor at the state-owned newspaper New Era, a reporter at the tabloid newspaper Informanté, and as a senior journalist at the Windhoek Observer. He was appointed as the editor of the Namibian Sun in May 2012. [2] Ndjebela returned to New Era in 2014, and again to the Namibian Sun, as editor-in-chief, in 2019.
Company name Last budget contribution (year) [5] [6] Description Classification [3] Dissolved in Air Namibia-1,766 Mio (2013/2014-2015/2016) National airline
The Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA) is the national news agency of the Republic of Namibia. It was founded in 1987 under the name Namibia Press Association as a SWAPO partisan press agency, [1] and resuscitated after independence under its current name in 1991. Its operation is regulated by the Namibia Press Agency Act of 1992. [2]