Authorities in Algeria intend on reorganizing and group state-run newspaper printing presses into a single management, in contrast to its current administrative and organizational move, to address the financial difficulties faced by the printing industry due to its failure in collecting debts owed by newspapers.
During his recent visit to various media institutions in Constantine, regarded as the capital of eastern Algeria and the commercial centre of its region, Minister of Communications Mohamed Bouslimani spoke of the need to reorganize government printing presses that suffer from a financial situation and to establish a national printing institution to be based in Algiers.
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has also instructed government-owned printing presses to establish a new management scheme, under a single supervisory institution called the National Printing Corporation.
The Algerian government owns five newspaper presses in capital Algiers, Béchar, Constantine, Oran, and Ouargla. Daily newspaper tabloids El Khabar and El Watan have also joined the rest of the newspapers to print in government-owned printing presses owing to the high paper cost and supply chain disruptions in the international market.
