Privately-owned Addis Standard (AS) – refused to leave the media landscape where it has and continues to set ‘the standard’ – as their name suggests. Like & share!😀🙌 pic.twitter.com/KOAsvkDvIR — Addis Standard (@addisstandard) June 13, 2017In a country so politically charged and where journalists are heckled even for their comments on Facebook, it is undoubtedly a slippery field but one that the staff at Addis Standard continue to navigate day in and out. Addis Standard have become a reference point relative to news on the country, they have been cited severally by the BBC, other global news outlets including Africanews. “The unfortunate closure of the print edition means Addis Standard has now a fully migrated its contents to its online platform with more vigor and determination. Addis Standard online remains the undeterred critical independent voice from within Ethiopia,” she told Africanews.

Source: Ethiopian News July 19, 2017 09:34 UTC