Amod (newspaper): Difference between revisions

| headquarters = '''Chowdury Para'''<br/>ComillaCumilla, Bangladesh

| website = {{url|www.weeklyamodamodbd.com}}

}}'''''Amod''''' is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] weekly [[newspaper]] published in [[Comilla]], [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Benn's Media Directory: International |volume=135-136 |publisher=Benn Business Information Services |year=1988 |page=420 |url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=q76vUYGHFYHoPNWUgNAC&id=bqUxAQAAIAAJ&dq}}</ref> The long-running community newspaper claims to be the oldest weekly newspaper in the country as it has been published since 5 May 1955.<ref>{{cite book|first=Shelton A. |last=Gunaratne |title=Handbook of the media in Asia |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2000 |page=52 |isbn=0761994270 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0761994270}}</ref><ref name=aboutus>{{cite news|url=http://www.weeklyamod.com/fstpage/about.php |title=About Us|work=Amod |publisher=www.weeklyamod.com |accessdate=2009-08-03}}</ref>

Mohammed Fazle Rabbi, who died 28 November 1994, was the founderfoundingr editor of ''Amod''.<ref>{{cite book|authors author= <nowiki>Bangladesh, Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, Establishment Division</nowiki> |title=Bangladesh District Gazetteers |volume=14 |publisher=Bangladesh Government Press |year=1977 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twZuAAAAMAAJ&q}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite news|title=Bangladesh: Women's Day observed |publisher=Right Vision News |date=March 13, 2010 |location=Comilla}}</ref> and son, Bakin Rabbi, who is the printer, publisher and editor-in-chief.<ref name=aboutus />

==ComillaCumilla market==

Although the ''Weekly Amod'' has faced competition from other weeklies, Mohammed Fazle Rabbi believed his first serious competitor was the ComillaCumilla's first daily newspaper ''Rupashi Bangla'', which started in 1979.<ref name=Maslog />

''Weekly Amod'' was recognized in 1985 by UNESCO after three decades of publishing news.<ref name=Maslog /><ref name=aboutus /> The ''Amod'' continues to remainremains 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."<ref name=Maslog>{{cite book|first=Crispin C. |last=Maslog |title=5 Successful Asian Community Newspapers |publisher=United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre |year=1985 |pages=2-42–4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9971905213}}</ref> Others say it is the long run of the newspaper that has given it a special authority within the Comilla community.<ref>{{cite book|title=Presentations, South and South-East Asia Media {{sic|Assmebly|nolink=y}} for people-to-people understanding |publisher=National Media Centre |year=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81piAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>

[[Category:NewspapersBengali-language newspapers published in Bangladesh]]

[[Category:1955Weekly establishmentsnewspapers published in PakistanBangladesh]]

[[Category:Media1955 establishments in ComillaEast Pakistan]]