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'''Dak edition''', in [[India]], is the edition of a newspaper published earlier than other editions in order to be distributed to [[Wiktionary:mofussil|mofussil]] areas (i.e. places outside of major [[metropolitan area]]s).<ref name="Wharton2010">{{cite web|url=http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?articleid=4439|title=Medium for the Masses: How India's Local Newspapers Are Winning Rural Readers|date=2010-01-14|work=India Knowledge@Wharton |publisher= Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania|accessdate=19 February 2012|location=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> [[Shashi Tharoor]] provides his description of 1960s Dak edition as "yesterday's news with today's date on it.<ref name="Tharoor">{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?267558 |title=WHAT THE HACK! |last=Tharoor |first=Shashi |date=2010-11-01 |work=www.outlookindia.com |publisher=The Outlook Group |accessdate=19 February 2012 |location=New Delhi |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105024335/http://outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?267558 |archivedate=5 January 2013 }}</ref> Aggarwal states that it is the responsibility of the news editor to schedule the printing of the dak edition which he describes as meant for distant places as different from "city edition", which intended for the city in which it is printed.<ref name="Aggarwal2006">{{cite book|author=Vir Bala Aggarwal|title=Essentials Of Practical Journalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m7_DtngZLogC&pg=PA19|accessdate=20 February 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-251-2|pages=19–}}</ref> Naqvi states that there are many editions of a paper such as dak edition, city edition and late city edition.<ref name="Naqvi2007">{{cite book|author=Hena Naqvi|title=Journalism And Mass Communication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lK33gVRecuIC&pg=PA173|accessdate=20 February 2012|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Upkar Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7482-108-9|pages=173–}}</ref> A dispatch appearing in ''Allen's Indian Mail'' (1851) uses the term describing it as very different from the morning edition.<ref name="Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence for British and foreign India, China, and all parts of the East">{{cite book|title=Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence for British and foreign India, China, and all parts of the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4BgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607|accessdate=20 February 2012|year=1851|pages=607–}}</ref>

==Etymology==
Dak spelt dawk in [[Hobson-Jobson]] is an [[Anglo-Indian#Britons in the British East Indies and British India|Anglo-Indian]] word, described as having been derived from [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] and [[Marathi language|Marathi]] ''dak'' meaning post.<ref name="YuleBurnell1996">{{cite book|author1=Henry Yule|author2=A. C. Burnell|author3=William Crooke|title=A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases: Hobson-Jobson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=20pdFRekGvMC&pg=PA930|accessdate=20 February 2012|date=11 January 1996|publisher=Curzon Press|isbn=978-0-7007-0321-0|pages=930–}}</ref> Handbook Of Advertising Media And Public Relations advises that press conferences should be scheduled early so that content would be available for the dak edition.<ref name="Gupta2005">{{cite book|author=Deepak Gupta|title=Handbook Of Advertising Media And Public Relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GZZWBRy2BwC&pg=PA452|accessdate=20 February 2012|year=2005|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-987-4|pages=452–}}</ref>

==References==
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Dak edition - Revision history

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