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{{Short description|Indian News Paper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox Newspaper
| name = Imphal Free Press
| image = Imphal Free Press logo .jpg|thumb
| type = Daily [[Newspaper]]
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation = April, 1996
| price on weekdays =
| price on sundays =
| owners = Mayengbam Satyajit Singh
| editor = Leivon Jimmy Lamkang (Acting)
| headquarters = [[Imphal]], [[Manipur]], India
| website = [http://www.ifp.co.in Imphal Free Press]
| political = Centre-left
| language = English
| circulation = 285,579
}}

'''''Imphal Free Press''''' is an English-language daily published in [[Manipur]], [[India]]. Alongside the Sangai Express, it is one of the two most widely read newspapers of Manipur.<ref name=relationship>{{cite book|title=Problems and Perspectives of the Relationship between the Media and Human Rights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExVUDgAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1443878326|editor1=G. P. Pandey|editor2=Charu Joshi|editor3=Paromita Das|year=2017|publisher=Cambridge Scholars|quote=The mass rape of [[Hmars|Hmar]] girls in the [[Tipaimukh]] sub-division of Southern Manipur in 2006 did not get much media coverage in [[Manipur]]'s capital [[Imphal]]. The Sangai Express and The Imphal Free Press, the most popular newspapers in [[Manipur]], carried the news on the incident but failed to give justice to the story.|page=118|first=Ruth|last=Hmingchullo|chapter=Chapter 10: Ethics in Journalism from a Human Rights Perspective|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExVUDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA118|via=[[Google Books]]|location=[[Newcastle upon Tyne]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Absent State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJc5AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT170|page=170|isbn=978-9350093665|first=Neelesh|last=Misra|year=2012|quote=The appointment of a new chief administrative officer in [[Tamenglong]] by the rebel administration was a front page story in the Imphal Free Press, the region's leading daily newspaper.|author-link=Neelesh Misra}}</ref><ref name=routledge>{{cite book|title=Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication|isbn=978-1351656139|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FfYtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT142|page=142|editor-first1=Dev Nath|editor-last1=Pathak|editor-first2=Sasanka|editor-last2=Perera|year=2017|quote=The situation of the press thus can [be] described as at best precarious, although today Manipur boasts of almost 40-odd dailies being published from different parts of the state; most of them are local in nature and barely able to sustain themselves. Only with the coming of 'Imphal Free Press' in 1996 that Manipur got its first daily professionally run newspaper with Pradeep Phanjoubam as its editor. Today, The Sangai Express is known to be another good quality newspaper which has added value to the print media sector. But apart from these two dailies, newspapers have struggled with frequent brushes with the state and insurgents, and have left the editors with no elbow room to work at all.|chapter=Protests, resistance and violence: the collective performance of everyday images in Manipur|first=Jayanta Vishnu|last=Das|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FfYtDwAAQBAJ|location=[[Abingdon-on-Thames]]|publisher=Routledge|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> The two papers are known as Manipur's only "good quality" newspapers, among approximately 40 papers in the state.<ref name=routledge/>

==History==
The original Imphal Free Press was owned by Sapam Nishikanta.<ref name=action>{{cite journal|journal=Social Action|volume=57|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBXaAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|quote=The transition from letter press printing to offset printing by The Imphal Free Press (The Imphal Free Press referred to here is the newspaper owned by Sapam Nishikanta. Later on, the editor, Pradip Phanjaoubam, left the organisation and took the name with him, which he now uses for his own paper. Meanwhile, Sapam Nishikanta's paper briefly ran as the Manipur Free Press and was later christened The Sangai Express)|title=Media under Siege. Media Functioning in an Armed Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Manipur.|number=4|pages= 382–396|first=Thingnam Anjulika|last=Samom|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> In 1996 its editor Pradip Phanjoubam walked out with the name and started a new Imphal Free Press.<ref name=action/><ref>{{cite journal|volume=33|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_35iAAAAMAAJ|date=April 1998|quote=In 1996, Guwahati, the capital of Assam alone published 25 papers which Manipur equalled with the launching of the Imphal Free Press on offset in April 1996.|publisher=[[Indian Institute of Mass Communication]]|title=NE press fails to Rise to Occasion: Will it be Able to face Invasion of the Sky|journal=[[Communicator (journal)|Communicator]]|number=2|via=[[Google Books]]|location=[[New Delhi]]|first=Biplab Loho|last=Chowdhury}}</ref> Phanjoubam edits and owns the new Imphal Free Press ever since.<ref>{{cite book|title=Where the Sun Rises when Shadows Fall: The North-East|page=306|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XxuAAAAMAAJ|editor-first=Geeti|editor-last=Sen|isbn=0195682815|year=2006|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|quote=PRADIP PHANJOUBAM is editor of the Imphal Free Press, since 1996. He began his career in journalism in [[The Times of India]] in New Delhi and worked in various national newspapers, including the Business and Political Observer|via=[[Google Books]]|location=[[Oxford]]}}</ref> Sapam Nishikanta continued publishing under the names ''Manipur Free Press'' that turned into the ''Sangai Express'', now the main competitor of the ''Imphal Free Press''.<ref name=relationship/>

In 2006, a faction of the [[Kangleipak Communist Party]] forced a ban of three months on the Imphal Free Press.<ref>{{cite web|website=Info Change India|location=[[Pune]]|date=February 2009|first=Thingnam Anjulika|last=Samom|title=Manipur: The tussle and the compromise|quote=In April 2006, a faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) held six Imphal-based newspaper editors hostage through the night and forced them to publish a statement about the outfit's "raising day" celebration which the editors had previously ignored. The KCP faction also clamped a three-month ban on the Imphal Free Press for misquoting an earlier statement.|url=http://www.infochangeindia.org/agenda-issues/reporting-conflict/7599-manipur-the-tussle-and-the-compromise-}}</ref> On 11 November 2008 an Imphal Free Press editor, Konsam Rishikant, was assassinated.<ref>{{cite book|title=Burning Bright Irom Sharmila|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w577ssi6CTAC&pg=PT176|page=176|isbn=978-8184751536|first=Deepti Priya|last=Mehrotra|year=2009|quote=On 17 November 2008, Konsam Rishikanta of the Imphal Free Press was shot dead by unknown gunmen—the sixth journalist to be killed in Manipur since 1993. When the media aired its suspicion about involvement of state police in the killing, there was no response from the state;|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|location=[[London]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Freedom in the World 2009: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZVhuV7h5hwC&pg=PA326|page=326|
isbn=978-1442201224|editor-first=Arch|editor-last=Puddington|year=2009|quote=In November, Konsam Rishikanta, an editor with the Imphal Free Press, was found murdered in [[Imphal]], [[Manipur]]'s capital.|via=[[Google Books]]|agency=[[Freedom House]]|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|location=[[Lanham, Maryland]]}}</ref>

==References==
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