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OBJECTIVES:

The news portal DailyMuslims.com

1. Will be a representative and the voice of Muslims living in North America and around the globe and all the oppressed people of the world.

2. Will cover all the social, economic, political, cultural, religious, and spiritual aspects of the Muslim society.

3. Will represent all Muslims from all ethnic and nationalistic backgrounds; native and immigrants.

4. Will provide a balanced opinion from all aspects of life and offer guidance on how Muslims should live in the plural society of America.

5. Will induce feelings of confidence, pride, and thankfulness to Allah in all Muslim sectors.

6. Will encourage unity among all the ethnic and religious groups and nationalities of North America to promote a peaceful, healthy, respectful, and spiritual society.

7. Will support all the oppressed peoples of the world and their struggles.

8. Will fulfill the dire need of an alternative media.

9. Will highlight "AL-ISLAM" as the way of life, the guidance for human beings, and its message for peace and justice.

Muslims had been waiting for this type of media for a long time. Our community needed a strong, Muslim Media which would also counter some of the American media campaign against Islam and Muslims.

BRIEF HISTORY: Muslims started its journey from December 31, 1999, Ramadhan 23, 1420 as a weekly print edition from New York and closed its publication in April 2006.

From January 31, 2006 (on the eve of New Year of Islamic Calendar, Muharram 1, 1427) we started DailyMuslims.com. Restarted with new get-up from October 8, 2006 (Ramadhan 26, and in the night of power, Lailatul Qader)

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Muslims disseminated information that reflects the true picture of Muslims and Islam. .

Muslims covers the stories of war, occupation, terrorism, and moral issues, and exposes anti-American, anti-Muslim, anti-human forces and their designs. We cover all the local national and international issues of serious concern. We have some of the finest writers of the media industry.

In 2003, We won six awards presented by the Independent Press Association, New York (www.indypressny.org), an association of all ethnic and community newspapers. We won Best Photograph, Best Re-Design, Second Best Editorial/Commentary, Second Best Article on Immigrant Issues, Second Best in Overall Layout/Design and Third Best in Layout/Design under the category of ‘newspapers of New York under 25,000 circulation.'

In 2004, We won, the Best Feature, Third Place Article "Cleansing the neighborhood" by Jawed Anwar.,

Best Editorial/Commentary, Third Place, New wave of fear by Jawed Anwar,

Best Editorial/Commentary, Honorable Mention "On the Ummah's failure at Public Relations" by Jerald Dirks

Best Public Affairs Article, Honorable Mention "Parents, Advocates Cheer, Jeer High Stakes Tests, by Adrienne Haywood-James

Best Overall Design, Honorable Mention in Graphic Design Awards, Oscar Polanco

In 2005, We won Best Editorial Award, Third Place in the Editorial Category on the column “Occupation vs Terrorism: What Should be Our Stand” by Jawed Anwar. We also won Best Article on Immigrant Issues, Racial, or Social Justices, the Honorable Mention on the article “The Muslim Participation in US Presidential Election (Record Muslim Voter Turnout) by Jehangir Khattak.

In 2005, we also won Media Justice Award by Council of American-Islamic Relations, New York (CAIR NY).

Muslims Newspaper in Media

NEWSDAY, NEW YORK

Perusing the Fine Print

Awards honor work of independent papers that is often overlooked
Samantha Henry
Samantha Henry is a freelance writer

Newsday, November 5, 2003
An 8-year-old boy dies in a fire at a Bronx building beset by 387 housing code violations, and the landlord goes unpunished. A Polish woman living in Queens has her children taken from her by the Administration for Children's Services, then spends $20,000 in savings for their college education to get them back. Filipino immigrants trying to save money to send home to their families subsist, five to a room, in a basement apartment without windows in Manhattan. The stories appeared in the city's ethnic and community press and were cited in the second annual Ippie awards given for distinguished work often overlooked by the mainstream media. The Norwood News printed the piece about the fire, the Polish-language daily Nowy Dziennik published the story about the woman's battle with the child-protection service and the Filipino Express detailed the challenges of new arrivals from the Philippines. Presented Oct. 23 by the New York chapter of the San Francisco-based Independent Press Association, the honors were divided into graphic and editorial categories. Awards were separated according to circulations above and below 25,000. Awards also were given to ethnic magazines. Attendees at the Manhattan ceremony represented a wide spectrum of independent media, from New York-based correspondents of foreign newspapers to journalists who write for local immigrant audiences and weekly neighborhood newspapers. They work for modest publications that sometimes struggle to stay afloat yet make up an expanding tier of the media in New York, fueled by the immigration boom and demand for papers in foreign languages, with news both local and international. Indeed, while mainstream media companies have been consolidating nationally, said Abby Scher, director of the New York branch of the Independent Press Association, the immigrant and ethnic press has had an "enormous expansion." The awards program is one of many services the IPA offers to member publications, ranging from technical and editorial training to business consultation on issues such as distribution, production and advertising. The organization also has a revolving loan fund for independent publications, a fellowship for immigrant journalists, and a weekly news service, Voices That Must Be Heard, which translates member articles into English and distributes them to a wider readership." We have a sense that with media companies becoming more consolidated, it shuts out the diversity of voices of many communities," Scher said.

A Queens-based weekly publication, Muslims, won six Ippies this year, including one for an editorial on post-war Iraq and another for a first-person account of Muslim neighbors pitching in during the blackout in August. Jawed Anwar, the founder and publisher of Muslims, said he tries to foster dialogue within the Muslim community and across ethnic lines to non-Muslims. Like many newspapers aimed at new immigrants, the publication tries to be a guide to life in America. "Before 9/11, Muslims were generally thinking about their own situations; Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Arabs all had their own communities and were less concerned about what is happening around them," he said. "After 9/11, there was a need of the Muslims to know America, to be more aware about the news happening around their communities nationwide."

Among other award winners, the Bronx community paper the Norwood News swept the under-25,000 circulation category, taking top prizes for best news story, best feature article, best editorial or commentary and best public affairs article for stories on local education issues and for the paper's continuing coverage of the fire that killed the boy. In the over-25,000 circulation category, Nowy Dziennik, or the Polish American Daily News, won first prize for the best article on immigrant issues for its exposé of a visa lottery scam that targeted immigrants via the Internet.The paper also received several other Ippies, including an award for a series on the ethnic press in New York, with regular translations of articles in other foreign-language papers. Anna Rudzinska, the editor of Nowy Dziennik, said issues like the Filipino Express article on overcrowded living conditions were well received by her paper's readers."We share the same problems and the same stories," Rudzinska said. "Our goal was to show our readers that these things are going on in different communities. It's our way of telling them, 'Look, you may think you are alone, but you're not; we are all in this together.'"

NEWSDAY QUEENS PROFILE: Jawed Anwar

Sheila McKenna
November 19, 2003

ROLE

Founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Muslims Weekly, a Queens-based newspaper published in English (www.muslimsweekly.com); on Oct. 23, won six Independent Press Association awards at the 2003 ethnic and community press awards ceremony.

BIOGRAPHY

42; native of Pakistan, where he earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Karachi; moved to New York City in 1998; worked as an editor for Pakistan News; founded Muslims Weekly in December 1999; married, five children; lives in Jamaica.

FOCUS

"Ours is a multi-ethnic Muslim newspaper focusing mainly on the Muslim community, but we also address non-Muslims. For its non-Muslim readers, it is one of the best newspapers for understanding Islam and Muslims in America. For Muslims, it is a good source of information on what is happening locally, nationally and internationally. We are also educating the Muslim community on how to live in a plural society like America and how to reach out to other communities and their neighbors to build a better understanding and relationship."

COMMITMENT

"Journalism and publishing is my hobby, profession, business and mission. I work 16 to 18 hours every day to excel in it. I want to be fruitful in the society and the country in which I am living. I want to contribute something big, something special, and something that can make my inner self happy."

GOALS

"To be a publisher of a daily newspaper like Newsday. ... I'd love to take the idea of Muslims Weekly and turn it into a daily newspaper."

Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc. | Article licensing and reprint options

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