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{{short description|Amharic-language daily newspaper in Ethiopia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Addis Zemen
| logo =
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| type = Daily
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| owners =
| founder = [[Haile Selassie]]
| publisher = [[Ethiopian Press Agency]]
| editor =
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| assoceditor =
| maneditor =
| newseditor =
| managingeditordesign =
| campuseditor =
| campuschief =
| opeditor =
| sportseditor =
| photoeditor =
| staff =
| foundation = {{start date and age|1941|6|7|df=yes}}
| political = Pro-government
| language = [[Amharic]]
| ceased publication =
| headquarters = [[Addis Ababa]]
| circulation =
| sister newspapers =
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| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20100906103429/http://www.ethpress.gov.et/ Website]
}}
'''''Addis Zemen''''' (አዲስ ዘመን; "New Era" in English)<ref name="Reta2013_p92">{{cite book|author=Meseret Chekol Reta|title=The Quest for Press Freedom: One Hundred Years of History of the Media in Ethiopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_yGg2G2noAC&pg=PA92|year=2013|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-6002-0|page=92}}</ref> is an Ethiopian [[Amharic]] [[newspaper]] published by the federal government's Ethiopian Press Agency,<ref name=haf>{{cite news|author=Daniel Berhane |title=Ethiopia: State-owned paper Op-Ed asks gov't to lower oil prices|url=http://hornaffairs.com/en/2012/06/10/ethiopia-state-owned-paper-op-ed-asks-govt-to-lower-oil-prices/|accessdate=7 August 2014|work=Horn Affairs|date=10 June 2010}}</ref> which also publishes the English-language ''[[Ethiopian Herald]]''.

==History and profile==
The paper was founded by [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Emperor]] [[Haile Selassie]] following the liberation of the country, and its name refers to the liberation of Ethiopia from [[Italian Colonial Empire|Italian colonial rule]].<ref name="TijaniGetahun2014">{{cite book|author1=Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani|author2=Solomon Addis Getahun|title=Culture and Customs of Ethiopia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oseUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|year=2014|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-08606-9|page=75}}</ref> The paper was launched as a four-page [[Weekly newspaper|weekly]] on 7 June 1941.<ref name=Reta2013_p92/> Its first editor-in-chief was Amde Mikael Desalegn.<ref name=Reta2013_p92/> On 5 May 1946 it became a [[broadsheet]] publication<ref name=Reta2013_p92/> and in December 1958 it became a daily newspaper,<ref name=TijaniGetahun2014/> along with the ''Ethiopian Herald''.<ref name="Reta2013_p95">{{cite book|author=Meseret Chekol Reta|title=The Quest for Press Freedom: One Hundred Years of History of the Media in Ethiopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_yGg2G2noAC&pg=PA92|year=2013|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-6002-0|page=95}}</ref>

It is based in [[Addis Ababa]] and is currently published by the [[Ethiopian Press Agency]].<ref name=haf/> On Sundays, the paper provides its readers with extensive news about children in the country in terms of cultural activities.<ref>{{cite book|author=Eva Poluha|title=The World of Girls and Boys in Rural and Urban Ethiopia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFWre4jvCyIC&pg=PA160|year=2007|publisher=African Books Collective|isbn=978-99944-50-16-9|page=160}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100906103429/http://www.ethpress.gov.et/ Website]

[[Category:1941 establishments in Ethiopia]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1941]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Ethiopia]]
[[Category:Mass media in Addis Ababa]]
[[Category:Amharic-language newspapers]]

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