There are several newspapers, news agency, audio visual media and broad cast media in Qatar News. Some of the Qatar News is local in nature, some are national and few are international. The
Gulf Times is Qatari newspaper coming in the English language. In the year 1978 some of the citizens of Qatar decided to set up the Gulf Publishing and the Printing Company. This step led in the creation of the famous Qatari newspapers.
On 7th August 1978, the permission to start the Gulf Times was given by the
Ministry of Information in Qatar. The Firs Edition of this newspaper acme in 10th December in the year 1978. The first Editor-in-Chief was Mr.Yousef Kassim Darwish. The Gulf Times was converted from the tabloid to Broad sheet in the year 1995 and the contents were also augmented.
Anther English Daily of General Interest to be published in Qatar is The Peninsula. The Chairman of this daily is Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani. The acting Managing Director is Khusro Parvez. The Arabic language General Interest Newspapers to be published in Qatar is Al Raya, Al Sharq, and Al Watan.
The popular audio visual news channel in Qatar is the
Al Jazeera channel. This News channel was founded in the year 1996 and is owned by the Emir of Qatar. This is the most favourite Arabic News channel in the Middle East.
The news agency in Qatar is known as the
Qatar News Agency. Besides all these there is also Qatar Internet News Media where various foreign and National Internet websites in English and Arabic cater news to the public.
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