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Oman Tribune
Dear Reader

Your favourite newspaper Oman Tribune is three years old, rather three years young. Your good wishes and brand loyalty have catapulted us to the Number One position in the Sultanate’s English media market. To become visible to the entire world we have decided to go online. With your blessings we shall soon emerge numero uno even in the virtual world.

What a delight to become the Number One on our first birth anniversary. Yet, we are aware that it is also a tremendous responsibility. What are our future challenges and how do we plan to cope with it?

Oman Tribune was born during a period of turmoil – war, death and destruction. Both in politics and in the market, instability has become the name of the game. Like doctors who dedicate their lives to fight diseases, we plan to objectively report such turmoil and the reasons for such instability. Merely reporting and analysing events is, however, not our only goal. We have a social responsibility to educate our readers, raise awareness and actively assist them in transforming their lives.

Since the word Tribune means the champion of the people, we plan to be our readers’ collective voice. We have done that in the past by highlighting and campaigning on issues such as rising road accidents or rising prices. We condemn violence as well as the source of violence, rising inequality. We plan to carry out active public campaigns on behalf of our readers in the future.

We are often asked why are newspapers are obsessed with negative news? Well, it is part of being a journalist where you are taught that the unusual event is news. You must have heard the cliche: ‘a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is news.’ However, we have tried to write about happy times as well as sad times.

Take, for instance, our four weekly pages planned recently. Our Kidzone page has become the Number One forum for informative and passionate debates among school students. Our Expatriate page is aimed at highlighting the cultural lifestyle of our expatriate communities.

Our Manager’s Medley page will tell you about the powerful personalities that turn business around in the corporate world. Our Glitterati page has been showcasing the bold and the beautiful. And who knows what new surprise we shall spring on you dear reader?

Finally, what is Oman Tribune’s vision? What values does it stand for? The cement of the universe, philosophy, ends the divisions created by politics and economics. In OT we are in love with philosophy. Hence our claim to be at the edge of knowledge.

Being the nation’s favourite paper, we stand for the values that have been dear to all Omanis. Freedom, reason, equality, tolerance, honesty and respect for knowledge have been the core values on which this ancient multicultural nation was built.

Such lofty ideals have been the guiding principles of the Blessed Renaissance under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said. Such lofty ideals are our ideals and the Sultanate’s vision is our vision.

We promised to be the poetry of Muscat, the soul of Oman, the spirit of the Arab culture and the voice of global civilisation when we launched last year. We shall relentlessly attempt to keep up that promise.

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