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{{Infobox Newspaper
|name = Samoa Observer
|image = Logo of Samoa Observer.svg
|caption = 
|type = [[newspaper]]
|format = 
|foundation = 1978
|owners = Samoa Observer Limited
|publisher = Muliaga Jean Ash Malifa
|editor = Mata’afā Keni Lesa
|headquarters = [[Apia]], [[Samoa]]
|circulation = 
|ISSN = 
|website = {{URL|http://www.samoaobserver.ws}}
|}}
The '''''Samoa Observer''''' is the biggest [[newspaper]] group in [[Samoa]]. It is written in [[English language|English]] and [[Samoan language|Samoan]]. The paper that is sold on Monday to Friday is called the '''''Samoa Observer''''', the paper sold on Saturdays is the '''''Weekend Observer''''', and the one on Sundays is the '''''Sunday Samoan'''''. 

The ''Samoa Observer'' has articles on news in Samoa, news in other countries, [[editorial|opinion essays]], [[sports]], and investigations by reporters.<ref name="so" /> The Samoa Observer was founded in 1978 by Editor in Chief [[Savea Sano Malifa]],<ref name="bk1">{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4zuaH62f0YC&dq=Samoa+Observer&pg=PA112
|title=Tonga-Samoa Handbook
|first=David
|last=Stanley
|page=112
|series=
|year=1999
|publisher=David Stanley 
|isbn=1-56691-174-5}}</ref> a poet and [[Pacific Islands|Pacific]] [[journalist|news writer]] who received the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] Astor Award for [[freedom of the press|press freedom]] in 1998.<ref name="bk2" />

The ''Samoa Observer'' has gotten awards for investigative journalism.<ref name="so">[http://www.samoaobserver.ws/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=141&Itemid=79] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628233341/http://www.samoaobserver.ws/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=141&Itemid=79|date=2018-06-28}} Samoa Observer website. Retrieved 1 August, 2010</ref> Some government officials and business leaders have sued the ''Samoa Observer'' in court for the stories it wrote about crime or other bad acts. <ref name="bk2">{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dc1UotA_G0EC&dq=Samoa+Observer&pg=PA397
|title=Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1998-1999
|first=Robert L. Bartley
|last=Roger Kaplan
|page=397
|series=
|year=1999
|publisher=Transaction Publishers
|isbn=0-7658-0675-4}}</ref>

The paper's offices are located in [[Apia]], the capital city of Samoa.  In 1994, the offices were damaged in a fire after it printed stories about government [[corruption]].<ref name=bk3>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l07ak-yd6DAC&dq=Samoa+Observer&pg=PA283
|title=The Asia-Pacific profile
|first=Bernard Eccleston, Michael Dawson
|last=Deborah J. McNamara
|page=283
|series=
|year=1998
|publisher=Routledge
|isbn=0-415-17279-9}}</ref>
== References ==
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== Other websites ==
* {{official website|http://www.samoaobserver.ws}}

[[Category:Samoa]]
[[Category:English-language newspapers published in Oceania]]
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