Ğábravik

Tæhūrix Ɣábravik

Type	Daily
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Odoneru Media Group SAK
Founder(s)	Rulon Féristav Karolus Rostatak
President	Pericolus Siderean
Editor	Aoife Ní Suibhne
Founded	211XX in Béyasar
Political alignment	Progressive liberal Post-Kirosocialist
Language	Kiravic Coscivian
City	Madisar, Fariva
Country	Kiravia

Ɣábravik (Ænglisc: Lamppost) is a daily newspaper and media organisation based in Madisar, Fariva.

History

The Tæhūrix Ɣábravik ("Daily Lamppost") was founded in 211XX in Béyasar by Rulon Féristav and Karolus Rostatak. Both Féristav and Rostatak were natives of Hiterna who had come to Béyasar six years prior to study at the now-defunct Harroden College and took various menial jobs to cover their living expenses, during which time they became involved in the organised labour movement. The pair spent several years as contributors to a succession of small-circulation radical newspapers and union publications, until the Béyasar General Strike of 211XW inspired them to launch a full-fledged newspaper of their own.

Ɣábravik was initially supportive of the growing Kirosocialist movement, but became critical of the Kirosocialist government during the 211XZs and was targeted for censorship by the authorities. Ɣábravik welcomed the National Renewal Movement of the 211XQs and definitively repudiated Kirosocialism in a full-page editorial published in 21193.

In 21201, Ɣábravik moved its offices from downtown Béyasar to the satellite city of Madisar.

Content

Editorial stance

The Ɣábravik editorial line has evolved over time, and since the 21190s it has been variously described as progressive, liberal, left-liberal, and social-democratic. The editorial board has described its philosophy as "nonsectarian and non-dogmatic, inclusive of a wide range of viewpoints not commonly represented in the mainstream Kiravian media." According to Malcolm Lenihan of the libertarian-conservative Financial Post, "the staff at [Ɣábravik] are a motley crew, comprising in equal parts young cosmopolitan spawn of wealthy Eastern Seaboard families who never knew Kirosocialism, disillusioned Post-Kirosocialists still struggling to keep the progressive optimism of the 21160s alight in the Age of Candrin, and [third group here]."

The paper is supportive of the weaker elements in Kiravian society, including non-Coscivian immigrants, indigenous peoples, sexual minorities, service and gig workers, Hussars, the illegitimate, and Sasquatches, though notably not Kikparis. Regarding foreign policy, its articles and columns are resoundingly anti-colonialist and tend to favour pacifism and strategic neutrality. The paper strongly opposes Kiravian military involvement and colonial expansion in Punth.

Despite being derided by many cultural conservatives as a cosmopolitan and anti-Coscivian publication, the Lamppost perspective on many social and cultural issues broadly continues the ynserthérisēx tradition of the Social-Nationalist current within the Kirosocialist movement of "defining Coscivian civilisation not by its past, but by its future".

Readership

Ɣábravik has a domestic weekly circulation of X0,000 and averaged X0,000 online hits per day in 21206.