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The original Imphal Free Press was owned by Sapam Nishikanta.<ref name=action>{{cite journal|journal=Social Action|volume=57|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBXaAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|quote=The transition from letter press printing to offset printing by The Imphal Free Press (The Imphal Free Press referred to here is the newspaper owned by Sapam Nishikanta. Later on, the editor, Pradip Phanjaoubam, left the organisation and took the name with him, which he now uses for his own paper. Meanwhile, Sapam Nishikanta's paper briefly ran as the Manipur Free Press and was later christened The Sangai Express)|title=Media under Siege. Media Functioning in an Armed Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Manipur.|number=4| | The original Imphal Free Press was owned by Sapam Nishikanta.<ref name=action>{{cite journal|journal=Social Action|volume=57|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBXaAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|quote=The transition from letter press printing to offset printing by The Imphal Free Press (The Imphal Free Press referred to here is the newspaper owned by Sapam Nishikanta. Later on, the editor, Pradip Phanjaoubam, left the organisation and took the name with him, which he now uses for his own paper. Meanwhile, Sapam Nishikanta's paper briefly ran as the Manipur Free Press and was later christened The Sangai Express)|title=Media under Siege. Media Functioning in an Armed Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Manipur.|number=4|pages= 382–396|first=Thingnam Anjulika|last=Samom|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> In 1996 its editor Pradip Phanjoubam walked out with the name and started a new Imphal Free Press.<ref name=action/><ref>{{cite journal|volume=33|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_35iAAAAMAAJ|date=April 1998|quote=In 1996, Guwahati, the capital of Assam alone published 25 papers which Manipur equalled with the launching of the Imphal Free Press on offset in April 1996.|publisher=[[Indian Institute of Mass Communication]]|title=NE press fails to Rise to Occasion: Will it be Able to face Invasion of the Sky|journal=[[Communicator (journal)|Communicator]]|number=2|via=[[Google Books]]|location=[[New Delhi]]|first=Biplab Loho|last=Chowdhury}}</ref> Phanjoubam edits and owns the new Imphal Free Press ever since.<ref>{{cite book|title=Where the Sun Rises when Shadows Fall: The North-East|page=306|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XxuAAAAMAAJ|editor-first=Geeti|editor-last=Sen|isbn=0195682815|year=2006|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|quote=PRADIP PHANJOUBAM is editor of the Imphal Free Press, since 1996. He began his career in journalism in [[The Times of India]] in New Delhi and worked in various national newspapers, including the Business and Political Observer|via=[[Google Books]]|location=[[Oxford]]}}</ref> Sapam Nishikanta continued publishing under the names ''Manipur Free Press'' that turned into the ''Sangai Express'', now the main competitor of the ''Imphal Free Press''.<ref name=relationship/> | ||
In 2006, a faction of the [[Kangleipak Communist Party]] forced a ban of three months on the Imphal Free Press.<ref>{{cite web|website=Info Change India|location=[[Pune]]|date=February 2009|first=Thingnam Anjulika|last=Samom|title=Manipur: The tussle and the compromise|quote=In April 2006, a faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) held six Imphal-based newspaper editors hostage through the night and forced them to publish a statement about the outfit's "raising day" celebration which the editors had previously ignored. The KCP faction also clamped a three-month ban on the Imphal Free Press for misquoting an earlier statement.|url=http://www.infochangeindia.org/agenda-issues/reporting-conflict/7599-manipur-the-tussle-and-the-compromise-}}</ref> On 11 November 2008 an Imphal Free Press editor, Konsam Rishikant, was assassinated.<ref>{{cite book|title=Burning Bright Irom Sharmila|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w577ssi6CTAC&pg=PT176|page=176|isbn=978-8184751536|first=Deepti Priya|last=Mehrotra|year=2009|quote=On 17 November 2008, Konsam Rishikanta of the Imphal Free Press was shot dead by unknown gunmen—the sixth journalist to be killed in Manipur since 1993. When the media aired its suspicion about involvement of state police in the killing, there was no response from the state;|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|location=[[London]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Freedom in the World 2009: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZVhuV7h5hwC&pg=PA326|page=326| | In 2006, a faction of the [[Kangleipak Communist Party]] forced a ban of three months on the Imphal Free Press.<ref>{{cite web|website=Info Change India|location=[[Pune]]|date=February 2009|first=Thingnam Anjulika|last=Samom|title=Manipur: The tussle and the compromise|quote=In April 2006, a faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) held six Imphal-based newspaper editors hostage through the night and forced them to publish a statement about the outfit's "raising day" celebration which the editors had previously ignored. The KCP faction also clamped a three-month ban on the Imphal Free Press for misquoting an earlier statement.|url=http://www.infochangeindia.org/agenda-issues/reporting-conflict/7599-manipur-the-tussle-and-the-compromise-}}</ref> On 11 November 2008 an Imphal Free Press editor, Konsam Rishikant, was assassinated.<ref>{{cite book|title=Burning Bright Irom Sharmila|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w577ssi6CTAC&pg=PT176|page=176|isbn=978-8184751536|first=Deepti Priya|last=Mehrotra|year=2009|quote=On 17 November 2008, Konsam Rishikanta of the Imphal Free Press was shot dead by unknown gunmen—the sixth journalist to be killed in Manipur since 1993. When the media aired its suspicion about involvement of state police in the killing, there was no response from the state;|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|location=[[London]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Freedom in the World 2009: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZVhuV7h5hwC&pg=PA326|page=326| | ||