{"id":5791,"date":"2019-06-21T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T10:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:08","slug":"no-print-editions-of-the-statesman-in-kolkata-for-two-days-crisis-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/no-print-editions-of-the-statesman-in-kolkata-for-two-days-crisis-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"No print editions of “The Statesman” in Kolkata for two days, crisis continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The print edition of The Statesman<\/em> could not be published on two consecutive days \u2013 Thursday and Friday \u2013 from Kolkata due to a conflict between a section of employees and the management of the newspaper headquartered in the city.<\/p>\n

The English daily — The Statesman<\/em> — and the Bengali daily owned by the same group \u2013 Dainik Statesman<\/em> \u2013 remained unpublished on both days. This is unprecedented in the history of the newspaper that was founded in Kolkata in 1875.<\/p>\n

Sources said that the management has taken initiative to resolve the crisis. But the section of employees who started the stir, remained firm in their demands. Talks are on to publish the print edition on Saturday. The management is also considering options of bringing out the newspaper from some other printing press, as work in its own press has not resumed.<\/p>\n

Some issues had cropped up between employees and the management late on Wednesday night that resulted in the print edition of Thursday not getting published, though the editorial staff had prepared the newspaper for publication. The same was repeated on Thursday \u2013 the editorial team prepared the newspaper, but it could not be printed.<\/p>\n

The e-papers and online editions of the papers were published though.<\/p>\n

The protesting employees are mostly from the office\u2019s Systems section, along with some other non-editorial employees.<\/p>\n

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

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

The Statesman <\/em>is a descendant of The Englishman<\/em> and The Friend of India<\/em>, which were both published from Kolkata (then Calcutta). The Englishman<\/em> was started by Robert Knight (who was the principal founder and editor of The Times of India<\/em>). Knight founded The Statesman and New Friend of India<\/em> on January 15, 1875, which later came to be known as 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 Dainik Statesman<\/em> \u2013 was started in 2004.<\/p>\n

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. The Stateman<\/em>\u2019s Vintage Car Rally is a major event in Kolkata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talks are on to resolve the crisis or print Saturday’s edition from another press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5791","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\/5791","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=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}