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Media
Report to Women
(Covering all issues concerning women and media)
Winter
2001
Journalist,
Susan Akbarpour, of San Jose, Calif., is seeing success with Iran
Today a monthly bilingual (English and Farsi) newspaper she founded
for the expatriate Iranian community. The newspaper is modeled on
Melat, a magazine published in prerevolution Iran by her parents,
who were forced to shut it down when the Ayatollah KhomeiniÕs supporters
took over the government and imposed restrictions on the press.
Akbarpour later became a journalist in her hometown, reporting on
government corruption and arousing the ire of authorities. Ultimately
she emigrated to the U.S., and with inheritance money and the help
of investors, launcher her publishing company. Her newspaper now
with a circulation of 25,000, targets recent Iranian ˇmigrˇs. She
is going ahead with planes to launch two new magazines, Silicon
Iran for Iranian-Americans in the high tech sector and Persian Princess,
a magazine for teen girls.
Volume
29,
Number 1
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