''Financial Tribune'' was a non-governmental newspaper in

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opened in 2014. Its purpose is to cover a variety of political, economic, technology, and social stories. It ran until 2023 when the paper's coverage and archives were purchased by a German news agency.

Profile

The ''Financial Tribune'' editor-in-chief is Khosro Ghadiri, the paper's Senior editor is Amin Sabooni, formerly the editor-in-chief of '' Iran Daily'' newspaper. Pouya Jabal Ameli is the senior economic analyst of the newspaper. ''Financial Tribune'' licence holder is "Donyay-e Eqtesad Media Group" and its owner is Alireza Bakhtiari who also runs the '' Donya-e-Eqtesad'' newspaper, '' Tejarat-e-Farda'' magazine and Eghtesad News website. As of 2014, the ''Financial Tribune'' main headquarters are in the central business district in Iran's capital

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. The newspaper covers a host of up-and-coming sectors in Iran's economy. In recent months its technology and new business experts have covered subjects from the first EU-Iran Forum hosted in London to new online startup businesses operating in the country. In April 2015, the newspaper became a 16-page newspaper with alternating pages between local and international automotive stories, science and technology developments, and environment-tourism articles. The creation of the new sections including automotive and technology in 2014, was in part due to senior editor Morteza Khazeni, who was employed by the publication. Being the first English-language paper in the country to do the variable format of sections. The ''Tribune'' has been actively covering news about Iran's re-engagement with the global economy following the lifting of the sanctions in January 2016, including Iran's airplane deals, banking relations, bilateral trade, auto deals, and international cooperation in oil, gas and renewable energies. In 2016, the paper was ranked 6th in Ministry of Culture's list of top Iranian business newspapers. From among six candidates the ''Financial Tribune'' was selected by judges as the top website in the 'Economic News' category in the ninth edition of Iran Web Awards in 2017. In 2017, ''Financial Tribune'' CEO Alireza Bakhtiari was awarded the Amin al-Zarb award in recognition of his journalistic endeavors in the private sector. On September 23, 2018, and following the worsening condition of country's economy, the newspaper announced that it will be published in 8 pages. As the results, art and culture, people, sports, environment and world economy pages were removed from the print version.

Causes

The newspaper has been a vocal critic of Iranian government policies in regards to handling Iran's ongoing water crisis since the development of the paper's environment section in January 2015. With titles such as "Water Management Deserves new Strategy", "Water Crisis: A New Wake-Up Call" and "Experts Review Water Crisis".

English newspapers in Iran

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newspapers in

. The ''Financial Tribune'' was the only English-language newspaper on economics. The other newspapers published in English in Iran are the ''

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''; '' Kayhan International'', a Persian-language version of '' Kayhan'' published by the office of the

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; '' Iran Daily'', published by the administration's Islamic Republic News Agency; and ''Iran News'', from Iran's Foreign Ministry.

Closure

Tehran Bazaar, a digital media channel received reports from journalists at the newspaper that the DEN Group which owned the paper had decided to close the paper on July 20 (the end of the Persian month) following deciling subscription numbers. Following the closure of the paper Berlin-based Bne IntelliNews entered into negotiations with the group to continue coverage of economic and macroeconomic news and data from Iran. As part of the deal several former staff members moved to the German agency.

Ex-staffers

The newspaper has become the launching pad of several journalists in Iran and those who have moved abroad. Many of which have moved onto publications and television channels including Bne IntelliNews,

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and

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Financial Tribune news desks

* International (global) news * National (Iran) news * Iran Business & Markets news * Iran Energy News * Domestic Economy news * Iran Auto news * Iran Science & Technology news * World (Global) Economy news * Iran People news * Iran Travel news * Iran Environment news * Iran Art and Culture news

References

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