Bearing / RRA / Evaliste Rwabikinga:
Rwanda’s The New Times is started in 1995, The New Times Publications SARL is a registered Rwandan private media outlet with hitherto publishes in English. It was established just less than years after the end of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and the return of over a million Rwanda refugees from mainly neighboring countries of Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Kenya.
Many of these returnees were English speakers besides their native Kinyarwanda, a factor that could largely be attributed to the fact that TNT publishes in English. History shows that there had never been an English news paper in Rwanda before TNT. The Newspaper’s editorial is based on fair and balanced reporting without any confrontational tones, political or otherwise.
The New Times started as a simple paper publishing once in two weeks. In 1998 it started to publish a weekly newspaper and then in 1999 it started producing a bi-weekly publication until mid March 2004 when it increased the newspaper frequency to three times a week. At this time the paper had got a significant market share both within and outside the country.
Rwanda’s The New Times is started in 1995, The New Times Publications SARL is a registered Rwandan private media outlet with hitherto publishes in English. It was established just less than years after the end of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and the return of over a million Rwanda refugees from mainly neighboring countries of Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Kenya.
The New Times started as a simple paper publishing once in two weeks. In 1998 it started to publish a weekly newspaper and then in 1999 it started producing a bi-weekly publication until mid March 2004 when it increased the newspaper frequency to three times a week. At this time the paper had got a significant market share both within and outside the country.
