HISTORY
Press24hours.com established its place in the media scene of Bangladesh on March 26th, 2014. It started its journey with a sense of challenge and a feeling of humility to serve this nation as a truly independent newspaper. The newspaper made its debt at a historic time when, with the fall of an autocratic regime, the country was well set to begin a new era towards establishing a democratic
system of government which eluded Bangladesh for too long. OBJECTIVE
Press24hours.com carries on with the long-term responsibility is to strengthen public opinion on how the democratic system should work and how to sustain and nurture democratic norms effectively. VALUES
The uniqueness of Press24hours.com lies in its non-partisan position, in the freedom it enjoys from any influence of political parties or vested groups. Its strength is in taking position of neutrality in conflicts between good and evil, justice and injustice, right and wrong, regardless of positions held by any group or alliance. The paper believes to report events objectively, as it is, and without any fear and favour. It is committed to serve the people. That’s why people — whether in power or in opposition — respect Press24hours.com. Press24hours.com advocates rule of law, human rights, gender issues, national interests, press freedom, transparency and accountability of people in the administration and in the world of trade and industry on which the newspaper has never compromised whatever the costs. No political powers can take it for granted and no-one is given cause to doubt its fairness. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COMMITMENT
Being well aware of its social responsibilities and duties, the newspaper works to ensure human rights to all, remove gender discrimination, advocate rule of law, press freedom, transparency and accountability in the administration and in the world of trade and industry and above all to uphold national interests. While working for these ends, Press24hours.com always maintains utmost sincerity and accountability to serve the nation the way it is bound by its norms and values. Besides running news reports on these issues, Press24hours.com carries special reports, human-interest stories, features, articles and essays written by its staffs and other professionals and talents from across the country and abroad. During different national crises, the newspaper played an important role to solve those to stop people’s sufferings. As it remain alert of its social duties, Press24hours.com frequently organizes round tables, seminars and discussions on the issues. It also works closely with the civil society for this end. To promote young talents, Press24hours.com organizes debates and different competitions at school and college-levels and awards those who show excellence in different fields. GOVERNING BODY
The newspaper is run a Board of Directors comprising six members. Head of the body is called Chairman while other members Directors. Presently a woman is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors only deals with income and investment of the newspaper but have nothing to do with policy-making. The responsibility of policy-making lies with the Editor who is also one of the Directors. Most meetings of the Board of Directors are held at Conference Room of the newspaper housed at Newmarket in the capital, Dhaka. ORGANOGRAM
The Editor who is also the Publisher of the newspaper leads the news, reporting and editorial units. He is assisted by an associate editor and assistant editors. An editorial board comprising the associate editor and assistant editors are responsible for writing editorials under the supervision of the Editor. The associate editor is responsible for assisting the Editor in leading the all the units and works as acting editor in absence of the Editor. The assistant editors are responsible for writing editorials in line with the instruction of the Editor. They also write and collect post-editorials from other writers and looks after the editorial and post-editorial pages. It is also their responsibility to look after the features and articles and make-up the pages. The management of the newspaper is headed by the Managing Editor. He is responsible for supervising the whole management including the accounts, production, store and establishment units. Meantime, the Establishment is responsible for all establishment affairs including human resources development and administrative works. An Establishment Manager is the head of the department and works under the supervision of the managing editor. The Finance Manager heads the finance and accounts sections. The Circulation Manager is responsible for all circulation of the newspaper across the country and for taking necessary steps to increase circulation. Advertisement Manager heads the advertisement section and is responsible for managing advertisements. The chief reporter is responsible for supervising the whole reporting team, the key unit of the newspaper. He assigns reporters for covering events and writing special reports and receives reports from the correspondents working across the country. After getting the reports, he forwards those to the news editors. There are one chief reporters in Press24hours.com, one responsible for current affairs and another for specials affairs. Chief News Editor heads the news section that comprise of news editors and sub-editors. Besides two news editors and a joint news editor, there are several sub-editors. The News Editors are responsible for page make-up. They also write headlines of the reports. The sub-editors edit the reports and submit to the news editors. The news editors later send the reports for revision to Revision Editor. There is also a City Editor in Press24hours.com who coordinates all the events that take place in the city. He also supervises reporters who cover special events and coordinates the staff who work with bringing out special pages on different occasions. DECISION MAKING PRACTICES
The newspaper is run according to a policy composed in line with its objective and values. The policymakers take the decisions. Besides the editorial board, the managing editor, news editors and chief reporters also play important role in decision-making. Crucial decisions also come from the weekly meeting of reporters and sub-editors. CONTEXT OF ORGANISATION’S WORK
WORKING HOUR
Staffs of the newspaper work in different shifts on the basis of the kind of their job. Although the staff of the administration, establishment and finance units work from morning to the afternoon, other units like reporting, news, editorial, graphics and production work in the night. While most of the sections excepting reporting, news, editorial, reading, star city, graphics and production enjoy weekly holiday on Friday, staffs of these sections get their day-off on different days of the week. WORKING ENVIRONMENT
The newspaper offers a very healthy working environment to its staff as it thinks a good working environment is the prerequisite of better output. Press24hours.com concentrates on improving inter-personal relationship among its staffs and holds different programs for this end. Besides founding anniversary, the newspaper holds annual cultural program where its staffs join with their families and get to know each other better. Read more
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