Front page on January 1, 2015
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Lakson Group |
Publisher | Bilal Ali Lakhani |
Editor | Kamal Siddiqi |
Managing editors | M. Ziauddin |
Founded | April 2010 |
Political alignment |
Centre-left Social liberalism Egalitarianism |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Plot 5 Expressway Off Korangi Road Karachi, Pakistan |
Sister newspapers | Daily Express |
Website | www.tribune.com.pk |
The Express Tribune is a major daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan. Part of the Lakson Group of companies, it is the flagship publication of the Daily Express media group. It is Pakistan's only internationally affiliated newspaper, in partnership with International New York Times, the global edition of The New York Times. Headquartered in Karachi, it also prints copy from offices in Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. It was launched on April 12, 2010, in broadsheet format, with news design distinctive from traditional Pakistani newspapers.
Its editorial stance identifies with social liberalism, and its readership is generally on the mainstream left of Pakistani political and social opinion. Topics the newspaper covers include politics, international affairs, economics, investment, sports and culture. It runs a glossy called Express Tribune Magazine on Sunday, which includes social commentary, interviews and a four-page supplement with recipes, reviews, travel advice, blogs and technology news. As of 2012, it has the widest online readership in the country locally and internationally.
The Express Tribune joins other brands of the Express media group including the Urdu-language Daily Express newspaper. It is accompanied by a twenty-four-hour Urdu news channel, Express News, and an Urdu entertainment channel, Express Entertainment. It also contains a technology supplement called '@internet'. It used to run an English-language news channel called Express 24/7, now defunct.