Windhoek Observer
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| description | English-language weekly newspaper |
| publishing company | Paragon Investment Holdings |
| First edition | 1978 |
| Frequency of publication | Saturday |
| Editor-in-chief | Kuvee Kangueehi |
| Web link | observer.com.na |
| ZDB | 95449-4 |
The Windhoek Observer is an independent weekly newspaper published in Namibia .
Written in English , it is published on Saturdays. The publishing house was The Windhoek Observer (Pty) Ltd. until 2009 . The newspaper was founded in 1978 by the journalist Hannes Smith , who died in 2008, who stamped the newspaper with an unconventionally critical, editorially provocative and controversial and influential stamp, roughly in the style of a tabloid.
The slogan of the newspaper was originally "the paper for the people" ( The newspaper for the people ), but was in the early 2000s in "Setting the Agenda Nations" (which means as much as setting the agenda of the country ) changed.
owner
In February 2009 it was announced that Paragon Investment Holdings would take over the newspaper. These were founded in 2003 as a private shareholder company that includes retail companies, trademarks, real estate and, with the Windhoek Observer, now also a news medium.
The change of ownership also led to the transfer of an extensive newspaper and photo archive together with a collection of South West African (colonial) and Namibian laws. In addition, an almost complete archive with almost eight decades of the editions of the lost newspaper Windhoek Advertiser , whose editor-in-chief was Hannes Smith until April 1978, before he founded the Windhoek Observer, passed to the new owner.
See also
Web links
- Windhoek Observer (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Company form ( Memento from September 17, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Founder of Windhoek Observer, Hannes Smith, dies at 75
- ↑ Jacobs takes over "Observer" - the newspaper wants to gain ground with a new concept ( Memento from February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )