Hamshahri
Sign in to saveHamshahri (; ) is a major Iranian national Persian-language newspaper in Tehran (whose municipal government owns the newspaper).
Key facts
- Newspaper.logo
- Hamshahri newspaper logo.gif
- Newspaper.image
- The front page of first Number of Hamshahri newspaper.jpg
- Newspaper.image_size
- 200px
- Newspaper.caption
- The front page of vol.1 & no.1
- Newspaper.type
- Daily newspaper
- Newspaper.format
- Broadsheet
- Newspaper.founded
- 15 December 1992
- Newspaper.founder
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi
- Newspaper.owners
- Municipality of Tehran
- Newspaper.publisher
- Hamshahri Corp.
- Newspaper.price
- 5,000 Rial
- Newspaper.circulation
- 540,000 Daily (2015)
- Newspaper.language
- Persian
- Newspaper.headquarters
- Tehran, Iran
- Newspaper.ISSN
- 1735-6385
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Temporary banning
- See also
- References
- External links
Hamshahri (; ) is a major Iranian national Persian-language newspaper in Tehran (whose municipal government owns the newspaper).
==History and profile== Hamshahri is published by the municipality of Tehran, and founded by Gholamhossein Karbaschi. It is the first coloured daily newspaper in Iran and has over 60 pages of classified advertisement. The newspaper is distributed within the limits of Tehran municipality. It has a daily circulation of over 400,000 copies, which is on par with major US-American daily newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, and Chicago Tribune. Based on the results of a domestic poll of how citizens of Tehran view television and print media which were released by Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Hamshahri was the most read daily in Tehran with 44.1% in March 2014.
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