- El Khabar
El Khabar (
Arabic , "The News") isAlgeria 's largest dailyArabophone newspaper , started after the fall of Algeria's one-party system in 1988, which had until then tightly controlled the press.The paper is independent and has no party affiliation. The paper's critical reporting has resulted in numerous run-ins with the Algerian government, which on a couple of occasions has sent reporters and editors to jail. [ [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16260 Reporters sans frontières - Algeria ] ] El Khabar and its staff was also threatened and attacked by
Islamist insurgents during Algeria's long and vicious civil war, which began in 1992.The paper's style of sensational reporting is comparable to British tabloids like
The Sun (newspaper) .El Khabar's web service [http://www.elkhabar.com] publishes selected news in Arabic and French, with a minor section in English, though often poorly translated.
See also
List of Algerian newspapers References
External links
* [http://www.elkhabar.com El Khabar]
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