The Star (South Africa)

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The Star
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner Independent News & Media
Editor Moegsien Williams
Founded January 6, 1871
Headquarters Johannesburg
Circulation 840,000
Official website http://www.thestar.co.za/

The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. It has a readership of 840 000 as of 2008[1] and is owned by Independent News & Media. It gained worldwide attention in 2006 when it published survey results according to which about twenty percent of South African men have raped a woman in their lifetime.[citation needed]

The newspaper employed three members of the Bang-Bang Club. It employed Kevin Carter as a staff photographer in 1984.[2] Ken Oosterbroek worked for the paper before being appointed its chief photographer in August 1991. He hired Joao Silva shortly afterwards.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Readership
  2. ^ Marinovich, Greg; Silva Joao (2000). The Bang-Bang Club Snapshots from a Hidden War. William Heinemann. p. 41. ISBN 0434007331. 
  3. ^ Marinovich, Greg; Silva Joao (2000). The Bang-Bang Club Snapshots from a Hidden War. William Heinemann. p. 46. ISBN 0434007331. 

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