O País (Mozambique)

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O País (port. The country ) is a Mozambican , Portuguese- language daily newspaper . The newspaper published in Maputo belongs to the private Soico Media Group , which u. a. also the private television station stv belongs.

history

O País was founded in 2002 as a weekly newspaper, it came into being in a dispute over the journalistic orientation within the newspaper editorial office of Domingo . In 2003 Daniel David , owner of the Soico Media Group, bought the newspaper, since then it has been one of the three media in the Soico Media Group (deputy, sfm and O País) that share a common news desk. The main competitor of the private newspaper, which was relaunched in 2008 and has been published daily with 32 color pages since then, is the state-run Notícias . The newspaper should have a circulation of 30,000 copies per day.

profile

While O País was initially relatively critical of the government, its profile changed over time. During the high inflation in Mozambique in 2010 and the protests that followed, the media group reported continuously on the unrest. As a result, the media group lost the favor of the FRELIMO government and journalists were no longer invited to travel by government representatives. Since then, the reporting has changed and is considered more pro-government. In September 2013, the media group fired the newspaper's editor-in-chief and news officer of the media group, Jeremias Langa, under pressure from the government because he had expressed himself too critical of the government. He was replaced by Olívia Massango.

Soico Media Group has been cooperating with the Chinese state broadcasting association CCTV since 2014 . In a conference paper, Sérgio Chichava, Lara Côrtes and Aslak Orre examined articles from three daily newspapers ( O País , A Verdade and Domingo ) related to China: The authors came to the conclusion that O País' reporting was relatively balanced; H. There were the same number of positive and negative-critical articles on China and Chinese activities in Mozambique during the investigation period.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to information from Chichava / Côrtes / Orre, the newspaper was created in 2005, directly founded by the Soico Media Group.
  2. ^ Roland Stanbridge, Maria Ljunggren: African Media and ICT4D: Documentary Evidence. A baseline study on the state of media reporting on ICT and information society issues in Africa. (No longer available online.) Economic Commission for Africa, 2003, p. 107 , archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved on March 23, 2015 : "In 2002, two new weeklies were launched, Zambeze and O País, which emerged out of journalistic differences within two existing weeklies, Savana and Domingo." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uneca.org
  3. ↑ Moky Makura: Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs . Penguin Global, 2009, ISBN 978-0-14-302430-9 .
  4. ↑ Tomás Vieira Mário (coordination), Celestino Vaz Tomás, Fernando Gonçalves, André, Paulo Comoane, Polly Gaster: Assessment of Media Development in Mozambique - Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators. (PDF) UNESCO Communication and Information Sector, 2011, p. 52 , accessed on March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ “O Pais” newspaper re-launched. In: Wanted in Africa. October 20, 2008, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  6. ^ Susana Salgado: The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries . Ashgate, 2014, p. 80 .
  7. ^ Mozambican media landscape: Current information and assessments of the media situation in Mozambique. In: Mozambique circular. Coordination Group Mozambique eV, 2015, accessed on March 29, 2015 : “We have the private television station STV, which I consider to be a very important alternative in reporting. The STV group also publishes the newspaper O País. In my opinion, however, the quality of this is not as good as the TV station. It is more aimed at business people than at ordinary citizens. "
  8. ^ Sérgio Chichava, Jonas Pohlmann: Breve analise da imprensa Moçambicana . In: Luís de Brito, Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco, Sérgio Chichava, António Francisco (eds.): Desafíos para Moçambique 2010 . Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos, Maputo 2010, p. 127–138 ( iese.ac.mz [PDF; accessed on March 29, 2015]).
  9. ^ Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber / Klaas van Walraven (Eds.): Africa Yearbook Volume 10: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2013 . Brill, 2013, p. 486 .
  10. ^ Jeremias Langa já nicht é director da STV. Macua Blog, September 17, 2013, accessed March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  11. ↑ Joseph Hanlon: O Pais editor dismissed. (PDF) In: Mozambique News Reports & Clipping. September 23, 2013, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  12. ^ Grupo Soico leva Moçambique à China através de acordo de partilha de conteúdos. In: O País. June 16, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
  13. ^ Sérgio Chichava, Lara Côrtes and Aslak Orre: The coverage of China in the Mozambican press: Implications for Chinese soft-power . Ed .: Chr. Michelsen Institute. Beijing, China 2014 ( cmi.no [PDF; accessed March 29, 2015] Paper for the conference "China and Africa Media, Communications and Public Diplomacy").