Theweek

{{short description|Omani newspaper}} {{For|the news magazine|The Week}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = TheWeek | image = TheWeekOman.gif | image_size = 200px | caption = The front page of theweek's 200th issue | type = Weekly [[newspaper]] | format = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]] | owners = [[Apex Press and Publishing]] | publisher = [[Mr Saleh al Zakwani]] | founded = {{start date and age|2003}} | political_position = [[Objectivity (journalism)|Neutral]] news coverage | headquarters = CBD Area, Ruwi, Muscat, Oman | website = [http://www.theweek.co.om www.theweek.co.om] | language = English }}

'''''Theweek''''' is a free, 48-page, all-colour, independent weekly contact newspaper published from [[Muscat, Oman|Muscat]] in [[Oman]].

==History and profile== The newspaper was launched in March 2003.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walter |first=Deborah |year=2007 |title=The tabloid explosion |publisher=Gender and Media Diversity Centre |page=13 |isbn=9780620394642}}</ref> ''Theweek'' is audited by [[BPA Worldwide]], which has certified its circulation as being a weekly average of 50,300, the largest in the country. ''Theweek'' is the first<ref>{{cite book |year=2007 |title=Emerging Oman 2007 |publisher=Oxford Business Group |page=141 |isbn=9781902339627}}</ref> and so far, only publication in Oman to be audited for readership. The results of the 2007 audit were that ''Theweek'' has an average readership of 178,000. The 2007 audit offers the last available circulation figures.

Free copies of ''Theweek'', published every Wednesday, are available from outlets spread across the main urban areas in Oman, including Muscat, [[Sohar]], [[Sur, Oman|Sur]], [[Nizwa]] and [[Salalah]]. It covers mostly local Oman-based news.

==See also== * [[List of newspapers in Oman]]

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