{"id":5784,"date":"2019-06-20T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:09","slug":"no-print-edition-of-the-statesman-in-kolkata-on-thursday-following-stir-among-a-section-of-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/no-print-edition-of-the-statesman-in-kolkata-on-thursday-following-stir-among-a-section-of-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"No print edition of &#8220;The Statesman&#8221; in Kolkata on Thursday following stir among a section of employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The print edition of <em>The Statesman<\/em> could not be published on Thursday in Kolkata due to a late-night conflict on Wednesday between a section of employees and the management of the newspaper headquartered in the city. Neither the English daily nor the Bengali daily owned by the same group \u2013 <em>Dainik Statesman<\/em> \u2013 was published from Kolkata today.<\/p>\n<p>Employees could not recall a similar event in the recent or distant past, and it is thus both unprecedented and heartbreaking for past and current employees.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1875, the daily is headquartered in Kolkata\u2019s Chowringhee Square with its national office in New Delhi\u2019s Connaught Place. The newspaper is simultaneously published from Kolkata, Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar.<\/p>\n<p>Some issues had cropped up between employees and the management late on Wednesday night that resulted in the print edition not getting published, though the editorial staff had prepared the newspaper for publication. The e-paper and online editions of the papers were published though.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting employees are mostly from the office\u2019s Systems section, along with some other non-editorial employees.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Statesman <\/em>is a descendant of <em>The Englishman<\/em> and <em>The Friend of India<\/em>, which were both published from Kolkata (then Calcutta). <em>The Englishman<\/em> was started by Robert Knight (who was the principal founder and editor of <em>The Times of India<\/em>). Knight founded <em>The Statesman and New Friend of India<\/em> on January 15, 1875, which later came to be known as <em>The Statesman<\/em>. It was managed by a British corporate group, and ownership was later transferred to a consortium of companies in the 1960s. The first editor under the new ownership was Pran Chopra. The Bengali edition \u2013 <em>Dainik Statesman<\/em> \u2013 was started in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting<\/em> is an award of The Statesman Ltd, is given to outstanding work by journalists reporting on rural India. <em>The Stateman<\/em>\u2019s Vintage Car Rally is a major event in Kolkata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a late-night conflict on Wednesday between a section of employees and the management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}