Editor | Tsedale Lemma |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Format | News magazine |
Publisher | JAKENN Publishing P.L.C. |
Founded | February 2011 |
Company | Addis Standard Publications |
Country | Ethiopia |
Based in | Addis Ababa |
Language | Afaan Oromo, Amharic, English |
Website | addisstandard |
Addis Standard is an Ethiopian monthly social, economic and political news magazine published[1][2] and distributed by Jakenn Publishing Plc, and was established in February 2011 by Tsedale Lemma,[3] who is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine as of January 2021[update].[4][2] The magazine has an independent political stance,[5] and is headquartered in Addis Ababa.[6]
Addis Standard is distributed in Ghana, Burundi and South Sudan in addition to its native country, Ethiopia.[6]
Addis Standard discontinued its print edition in October 2016[2] in response to censorship, while continuing to publish online.[7][8] It resumed a monthly print edition in 2018.[citation needed]
During the Tigray War, one of the Addis Standard editors involved in covering Tigray Region, Medihane Ekubamichael, was detained for a month. He was freed in early December 2020.[9] In 2021 the media regulatory of the Ethiopian government had suspended Addis Standard, but later the suspension was withdrawn by the government.[10][11][12][13]