The Armenian writer Vahan Tekeyan remains one of the most prominent figures that contributed to the paper and its first editor-in-chief.
After Tekeyan moving to Cairo, Kersam Aharonian took the editing becoming the paper's longest standing editor and writer for 33 consecutive years.
[1] In the 2000s, the newspaper became the ownership of "Societé Shirak" (with Hagop Kasardjian as general manager and Dr. Antranig Dakessian as administrative manager) with partner-shareholders the Tekeyan Cultural Association and the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party's Lebanese Regional Administration.
In April 1957 an Arabic-language weekly supplement to Zartonk was launched, al-Yaqza (in Arabic اليقظة).
Other editors included Levon Tutunjian, Yervant Keshishian, Hovhannes Boghosian, Hagop Tavitian, Mikael Natanian, Krikor Bekeredjian, Hampartsoum Koumrouyan, Baidzig Kalaydjian etc.