Far East Business Review

The Far East Business Review

Far East Business Review logo
Type	Weekly news magazine
Format	Berliner broadsheet
Owner(s)	Kalian Media Group
Founder(s)	Sir Isaac Goldenblatt
Publisher	Kalian Media Group
Editor-in-chief	Justin Kost
Managing editors	Sender Lieberstein Jeung Ho-min
Political alignment	Pro-business and Center-right (Editorial Board) Non-partisan (News reporting)
Language	Arthuristan English
Ceased publication	April 25th, 1991 (temporarily due to Seulbyeni Islands Crisis)
Relaunched	July 8th, 1991
Headquarters	Lion's Rock, Lion's Rock (1991 - present) Seulbyeni City, Dominion of Seulbyeni (1948 - 1991)
Circulation	98,943 (October 2015 est.)
Website	www.febr.lr

The Far East Business Review, often shortened to FEBR, is an English-language Eastern broadsheet news magazine that was founded in 1948 at the closing of the Great Eastern War. FEBR covers a variety of topics, including politics, business, economics, technology, social, and cultural issues throughout the global Far East region, including the sub-regions of Azumakya, South Ashizwe, Northeastern Skandera, and Borea, all from a business and financial perspective.

Its focus area includes generally the nations and overseas possessions of Lion's Rock, Anikatia, Westonaria, Dacia, Goredemabwa, Sieuxerr, Kongnŭngjang, Arthuristan eastern possessions, Belhavian eastern colonial holdings, Valinor, Prestonia, Belfrasian eastern colonial holdings, the Eaglalander overseas possession of Amazonia, among others.

It is headquartered in Lion's Rock, Lion's Rock with a substantial foreign news bureau in Antiytia, Anikatia.

Ownership

FEBR was established by Sir Isaac Goldenblatt, a wealthy Arthuristan Jewish print media entrepreneur, in 1948 at the close of the Great Eastern War by seed money from Seulbyeni Hunterford Banking Corporation, Lord Provisans, and Goldman, Black, and Richman Group in Seulbyeni City, the Dominion of Seulbyeni. The Lion's Rock daily newspaper Island Gentleman's Daily Intelligencer bought a controlling interest in FEBR in 1965.

After the news magazine struggled financially and had declining readership in the late 1980s, Goldman, Black, and Richman Group bought out the Intelligencer's majority interest at what many analysts credit as a "bargain price" for the elite business publication in 1987. During the 1991 Seulbyeni islands war, along with many other islanders, the staff of FEBR evacuated the islands in the face of an invasion by the DSRA, managing to take with them a small newspaper printer. GBRG attempted to sell the news magazine but found no reasonable offers at the time.

In 2001, as part of its growing portfolio of Far Eastern media properties, Kalian Media Group bought the magazine from GBRG. KMG has owned the magazine until the present.

Readership

FEBR targets markets in Seulbyeni, Lion's Rock, Anikatia, and other nearby markets. It reaches an elite group of readers from the government, business, financial, and academic sectors. The magazine has a circulation of almost 99,000 in 2015.

History

With the emergence of a global monetary regime adhered to by most major and minor countries, new publications were created in the global West and South to monitor current events from an economic perspective. While events such as the formation of the PMF, Panic of 1945, and end of the Great Eastern War were disrupting and causing innovation worldwide, there lacked any publications for elite decision-makers to track such trends in the Far East.

Sir Isaac Goldenblatt, having spent several years in the Western States, returned to find the Far East a rapidly-changing region. Seeking to replicate publications he saw back west and north in his native Arthurista, Goldenblatt brought together several other interested journalists and media personalities. In 1948, they secured funding from several world-renown banks and founded FEBR.

In 1951, after a caustic business dispute, Goldenblatt ousted his two partners and became the sole managing officer of the magazine. He recruited young talent from across the Anglo world, such as Emmeria, the Western States, Belfras, Arthurista, Belhavia, Tippercommon, and elsewhere, but chiefly in Lion's Rock, the Dominion of Seulbyeni, and the First Republic of Anikatia.

By the early 1960s, readership started to increase from the Far East to the broader educated populations. Intermixed with the journalistic coverage was the background of the raging Cold War, violent anti-colonialist and communist insurgencies and revolutions in the global Far East, changing social values among the Anglo and Oriental middle-strata, and other distinct phenomenon.

Censorship by governments

The news magazine was allowed to return to Seulbyeni in the post-1991 transfer of control agreement. In 1992, it was fined $2,000 by a People's Court for "endangering Anikatian national security" during research performed by FEBR reporter Lee Li-Woo. Lee was later held without charges by DSRA authorities in 1995 during another journalistic investigation.

In 2006, the Kongnŭngjangan government banned FEBR after it produced an essay-length headline exposé on alleged corruption throughout the Second Kingdom's royal court and ruling clique of senior government ministers.

While FEBR usually did not operate within Kolenomai, in 2009 FEBR journalist Lyle Greenfield was writing a story on the refugee crisis in North East Sea when the group he was with (on a small motorboat) was intercepted and fired upon by Kolenomese coastal police. The Kolenomese authorities detained Greenfield, physically mistreated him, and locked him away in jail after a short internationally-proclaimed unjust "show trial". He later, through unknown means, escaped the island prison he was sent to fifteen months later. It is alleged FEBR or KMG might have hired private forces to rescue the journalist. After Greenfield's escape, Kolenomai formally banned the magazine from operating within its borders.