Garowe_Online

Garowe Online

Garowe Online

Bilingual news website

Garowe Online is an independent bilingual news website founded in 2004 and is owned by Garowe News Group, which also owns Radio Garowe. The organisation is based in Garowe, the capital of Puntland State of Somalia. In 2011, Garowe Online was one of the most popular websites in Puntland,[1] accessed daily by the Puntland political elite.[2][3]

Quick Facts Available in, Founded ...

Creation

Garowe Online was established in 2004 and associated with Radio Garowe.[1]

News profile

The site mainly provides news about Somalia, the Horn of Africa, Africa as a whole, and, once in a while, from around the world. It mainly focuses on security, politics and humanitarian affairs.[citation needed]

Quality

In 2011, the BBC described Garowe Online as providing "particularly good context to stories", providing details for the main facts in stories, in contrast to other Somali news sources, The BBC found that Garowe Online had one of the best examples of investigative reporting.[1]

Audience

In 2011, Garowe Online was one of the most popular websites in Puntland,[1] and was an elite news source there, "accessed online every morning by ministers and officials", according to a BBC analysis.[2]

As of 2013, Somalia didn't have many significant newspapers outside of Somaliland,[4] owing to its decades of conflict. Garowe Online is[when?] among the main sources of news for the public in Somalia as well as the diaspora.[citation needed] The website publishes news in both the Somali language and English.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "An analysis of the Somali media environment" (PDF). BBC. 2012-02-20. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  2. [2]
    "The media of Somalia: a force for moderation?" (PDF). BBC World Service Trust. 2011-10-25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  3. [3]
    Somalian Medi: Radio Stations in Somalia, Garowe Online, Media of Somalia, Radio Garowe, Radio Gaalkacyo. General Books LLC. June 2010. ISBN 978-1-158-70746-1.
  4. [4]
    "Somalia Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide | Internews". internews.org. Retrieved 2020-01-15.

Developers


Stub icon

This article about a news website is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Garowe_Online, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.