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Shams (newspaper)

Saudi Arabian daily newspaper (2005–2012)

Field	Value
type	Daily newspaper
format	Tabloid
owners	Turki bin Khalid bin Faisal
publisher	Shams Information Company for Publishing and Development
founded	December 2005
language	Arabic
ceased_publication	February 2012
headquarters	Riyadh
publishing_country	Saudi Arabia
circulation	70,000
circulation_date	2012
circulation_ref

Shams () was a Saudi Arabian daily newspaper published between 2005 and 2012. Its publisher described the paper as modern and trendy.

History and profile

Shams was launched as a tabloid paper in December 2005.{{cite news|author=Tim Addington |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195942/http://www.arabpressnetwork.org/articlesv2.php?id=311|archive-date=10 September 2014|url-status=dead}}

There is inconsistent information about the daily print of Shams. The media group publishing the paper gave the number of daily print as 120,000. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on the other hand, in its 2006 report described Shams as a modest paper with the daily circulation of 40,000 copies. The Group Plus stated the daily circulation as over 70,000 copies. Shams was staffed mainly by Saudi journalists. and was being printed in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah.

The daily was the first paper in Saudi Arabia addressing at large youth population. Specifically, it targeted male and female Saudi readers between the ages of 18 and 35 who are interested in modern life-style, but also loyal to Saudi Arabia's conventional customs.

Shams mostly covered general local Saudi news and other top news from the world.{{cite web|title=Shams newspaper|access-date=10 May 2012

Controversy

See also; Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy The publication of the Shams was suspended on 20 February 2006 after publishing one of the controversial cartoons of Mohammad that caused anger across the Muslim world due to their publication in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005.{{cite journal

On 21 March 2006, Shams was relaunched.{{cite web|title=Shams Returns After Publishing Cartoons|work=The Arab Press Network

Closure

At the beginning of February 2012, Shams was closed down due to the conditions beyond its management.{{cite news|title=(Prince Turki bin Khalid: Circumstances forced us to stop the sun) لأمير تركي بن خالد: الظروف أجبرتنا على إيقاف شمس|newspaper=Shams|date=1 February 2012

References

"Shams Newspaper". Group Plus Media.
Karen Elliott House. (2012). "On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future". Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
(2 May 2010). "Dr. Khoja Patronizes Launch Ceremony of Shams Newspaper". Gulf in the Media.
Joel Campagna. (2006). "Saudi Arabia report: Princes, clerics, and censors". Committee to Protect Journalists.
"Saudi Arabia - Annual Report 2007". Reporters Sans Frontieres.

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