Format | Tabloid |
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Owner(s) | The Francistowner (Pty) Ltd. |
Founder(s) | Beata Kasale Don Laurence Moore |
Publisher | The Francistowner (Pty) Ltd. |
Editor-in-chief | Emang Bokhutlo |
Founded | 1993 |
Language | English and Setswana |
Website | thevoicebw |
The Voice is a print and online newspaper based in Botswana founded by Beata Kasale and Don Laurence Moore. The Voice was founded in Francistown in 1993 as The Francistowner Extra;[2] in 1999 it opened offices in the national capital, Gaborone. It has adopted a tabloid format which means shorter stories, bigger pictures and bolder headlines. The overall newspaper style encouraged journalist to develop a creative writing identity. Readership is at 30,000 copies per edition containing mostly human interest stories.