Matiur Rahman Chowdhury

Matiur Rahman Chowdhury
OccupationJournalist
SpouseMahbuba Chowdhury
ChildrenMehzeb Chowdhury
AwardsAnanda Alo Purashkar

Matiur Rahman Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi journalist, editor and talk-show host. He is the editor-in-chief of the Manab Zamin,[1] a Bengali language tabloid newspaper. Chowdhury also reports for Voice of America (Bangla) as a correspondent.[2] He has hosted a late night chat-show, Ajker Sangbadpatra, on Channel i, a privately owned broadcast channel, since 2005.[3]

He also hosted another political chat-show, called Frontline, on Banglavision, before it was suspended citing "technical problems".[4] However, several journalists including Chowdhury claimed that authorities were behind the closure.[5]

Chowdhury serves as treasurer of the Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh (NOAB)[6] and a member of Editors' Council,[7] an organisation of newspaper editors in the country. In addition, Chowdhury is a member of the governing body of Association for Social Advancement,[8] a micro-credit financing organisation. He was an editor for the now-defunct Bangla Bazar Patrika,[9] a broadsheet newspaper based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Chowdhury participated in Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and was tortured by the Pakistan Army in his native Moulvibazar District.[10]

  1. ^ "Daily Manab Zamin:: The World's First and Largest Circulated Bengali Tabloid Daily". Manab Zamin. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  2. ^ "More BDR Soldiers Go on Trial for 2009 Mutiny". Voice of America Bangla. Feb 10, 2013. Archived from the original on Mar 7, 2022. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  3. ^ সংবাদপত্র নিয়ে মধ্যরাতের টাটকা আয়োজন ‘আজকের সংবাদপত্র’-এর যুগপূর্তি আজ. Manab Zamin (in Bengali). Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  4. ^ "TV talk show Frontline goes off air". New Age. 2015-02-09. Archived from the original on 2015-04-03.
  5. ^ ohab1. "Mission Journal: Bangladeshi press reined in as Hasina exerts authority". cpj.org. Retrieved 2020-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "9th Wage Board for journalist, staff formed". New Age.
  7. ^ "Digital Security Act: Editors' Council to hold press conference on Saturday". Dhaka Tribune. 11 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Governing Body". ASA Bangladesh. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  9. ^ "Matiur Rahman Chowdhury Vs. Commissioner of Taxes, Dhaka, 14 MLR (AD) (2009) 305 - the Lawyers and Jurists".
  10. ^ মতিউর রহমান চৌধুরী Motiur Rahman Chowdhury. Porua (in Bengali). Archived from the original on November 17, 2013. Retrieved 2018-12-07.