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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Mayengbam Satyajit Singh |
| Editor | Irengbam Arun |
| Founded | April, 1996 |
| Political alignment | Centre-left |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Imphal |
| Circulation | 285,579 |
| Website | ifp |
Imphal Free Press is an English-language daily published in Manipur, India. Alongside the Sangai Express, it is one of the two most widely read newspapers of Manipur.[1][2][3] It is considered as one of the "good quality" newspapers, among approximately 40 papers in the state of Manipur.[3]
- ^ Hmingchullo, Ruth (2017). "Chapter 10: Ethics in Journalism from a Human Rights Perspective". In G. P. Pandey; Charu Joshi; Paromita Das (eds.). Problems and Perspectives of the Relationship between the Media and Human Rights. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. p. 118. ISBN 978-1443878326 – via Google Books.
The mass rape of Hmar girls in the Tipaimukh sub-division of Southern Manipur in 2006 did not get much media coverage in Manipur's capital Imphal. The Sangai Express and The Imphal Free Press, the most popular newspapers in Manipur, carried the news on the incident but failed to give justice to the story.
- ^ Misra, Neelesh (2012). The Absent State. Hachette India. p. 170. ISBN 978-9350093665.
The appointment of a new chief administrative officer in Tamenglong by the rebel administration was a front page story in the Imphal Free Press, the region's leading daily newspaper.
- ^ a b Das, Jayanta Vishnu (2017). "Protests, resistance and violence: the collective performance of everyday images in Manipur". In Pathak, Dev Nath; Perera, Sasanka (eds.). Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1351656139 – via Google Books.
The situation of the press thus can [be] described as at best precarious, although today Manipur boasts of almost 40-odd dailies being published from different parts of the state; most of them are local in nature and barely able to sustain themselves. Only with the coming of 'Imphal Free Press' in 1996 that Manipur got its first daily professionally run newspaper with Pradeep Phanjoubam as its editor. Today, The Sangai Express is known to be another good quality newspaper which has added value to the print media sector. But apart from these two dailies, newspapers have struggled with frequent brushes with the state and insurgents, and have left the editors with no elbow room to work at all.