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“Etilaat e Roz has several distributors, on bicycle, who deliver the 3,000 copies at dawn five days a week. It relies heavily on its colorful online presence, with 300,000 subscribers to its Facebook page. Advertisements cover only about 30 percent of the paper’s costs. The paper’s founder, Zaki Daryabi, recently obtained a grant from Open Society Foundation for about $50,000, which will cover another 30 percent for the coming year.” —
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Zaki Daryabi
