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This is a list of newspapers in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest English and Chinese language newspapers. The territory has one of the world's largest press industries and is a major centre for print journalism.

Overview

Popularity

The Chinese language newspapers Headline Daily and Oriental Daily News have the highest shares in the Hong Kong newspaper market, while the Hong Kong Economic Times is the best-selling financial newspaper. The Standard, a free tabloid with a mass market strategy, is the most widely circulated English newspaper by a significant margin. Its rival, South China Morning Post, has the most paid subscribers among English-language papers in Hong Kong.

Apple Daily had one of the highest circulations before its closure in 2021. It had a feisty, tabloid style, concentrating on celebrity gossip and paparazzi photography, with sensationalist news reportage and a noted anti-government political position. The Chinese language publications were written to some degree with colloquial Cantonese phrases.

Media landscape and pricing

The number of newspapers in the market has been stable for a long time. Occasional attempts to establish new types of newspaper and themed papers generally cannot compete with the established brands. However, the entry into the market of free newspapers Metropolis Daily, Headline Daily, am730, and The Epoch Times spurred competition. In September 2007, The Standard changed its business model from a traditional daily into a free-sheet, distributed in commercial districts like Central and Admiralty.

Most papers sell at a cover price of HK$9-10, except South China Morning Post (HK$9, while the Sunday edition, Sunday Morning Post, costs HK$10). The economic recession brought about by SARS in 2003 led to some resellers pricing at $1 below the recommended price. According to the HK Newspaper Hawkers Association, the situation lasted through to 2008, when around 10% of sellers maintained the cut price despite the change in the prevailing economic climate. The Association urged a return to resale price maintenance.

Chinese-language newspapers

Newspapers in Hong Kong are considered to follow a particular political stance, with most being either pro-Beijing or pro-democracy. A few are neutral, or are oriented towards finance or religion. There has long been a lively tabloid sector, including Oriental Daily, The Sun and (formerly) Apple Daily.

Daily print newspapers

Weekly or quarterly newspapers

Newspaper-turned-online media

Defunct newspapers

Defunct online media

English-language newspapers

Hong Kong is also the base of regional editions of foreign English-language newspapers. The The New York Times International Edition and the Financial Times are published in Hong Kong.

From 10 September 2007, The Standard switched to free, advertising-supported distribution. The South China Morning Post announced on 11 December 2015 that the Alibaba Group would acquire the South China Morning Post from Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok, who had owned it since 1993. As of 5 April 2016, the South China Morning Post's online content became free to read.

Online only

• Hong Kong Free Press
• Asia Times

Defunct newspapers

Newspapers in other languages

• Hong Kong Post (香港ポスト) (Japanese)
• Wednesday Journal (홍콩수요저널) (Korean)
• Suara (Indonesian)
• Filipino Globe (Filipino)
• The SUN (Filipino)
• Hong Kong News (Filipino)
• Everest Weekly (Nepalese)

See also

• Newspaper Society of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Audit Bureau of Circulations
• Media of Hong Kong
• Censorship in Hong Kong
• List of newspapers in China

Notes

1. ^ † The indicated news outlets are indirectly owned and controlled by the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government.

References

1. Standard to become free newspaper – RTHK, 3 September 2007
2. Diana Lee, "Plea to halt newspaper price war" Archived 29 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Standard, 28 March 2008, in 2013, the newspapers changed price to $7.
3. Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspapers 香港早期小報, CUHK Library; accessed 19 May 2024
4. Betsy Tse (9 April 2015). "Basic Law violation seen as LOCPG tightens grip on HK publishers". EJ Insight. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
5. "《壹週刊》報導揭露中聯辦壟斷香港出版市場". The News Lens (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 8 April 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
6. "The Publishing Empire Helping China Silence Dissent in Hong Kong". Bloomberg News. 18 August 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
7. "Take care and don't give up hope: Apple Daily staff – RTHK". news.rthk.hk. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
8. "紙媒進入凜冬，17年歷史的香港《太陽報》4月起停刊". Initium Media (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 30 March 2016.
9. "Apple's free sister paper Sharp Daily folds after losing millions". South China Morning Post. 18 October 2013.
10. "Alibaba Buys HK's SCMP to Counter 'Western Bias'".
11. "Paywall down as Alibaba takes ownership of SCMP". 5 April 2016.
12. Sinn, Elizabeth (2002). Emerging Media: Hong Kong and the Early Evolution of the Chinese Press. Modern Asian Studies vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 421-465

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