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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid (四开 size)[1] |
| Owner(s) | Publicity Department of the Beijing municipal committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
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| Publisher | The Beijing News Press (Chinese:新京报社) |
| Founded | 11 November 2003; 21 years ago (2003-11-11) |
| Political alignment | Chinese Communist Party |
| Language | Chinese |
| City | Beijing |
| Country | China |
| Website | www |
| Free online archives | epaper |
| The Beijing News | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 新京报 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新京報 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | New Beijing News (or New Capital News) | ||||||
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The Beijing News (新京报) is a daily newspaper headquartered inDongcheng, Beijing, China. It was co-founded byGuangming Daily andNanfang Daily in November 2003. In September 2011, the newspaper was transferred to theBeijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2]
The Beijing News began publishing on 11 November 2003[1] by a joint venture of Guangming Daily Press and Nanfang Media Group (also transliterated as "Southern Newspaper Group" or Southern Daily Press Group, publisher ofSouthern Weekly),[1][3] both owned by the sub-committees of theChinese Communist Party (CCP), the ruling party of China since 1949. Guangming Daily Press was owned by theCentral Committee[4] while Nanfang Media Group was owned by theGuangdong provincial committee of the CCP.[5] Initially, staff from Nanfang Media Group dominated the day-to-day operation of the newspaper, turningThe Beijing News into one of Beijing's most influential newspapers.[3]
According to Jonathan Hassid, an assistant professor (from 2015 to 2018) atIowa State University, the two publishers had different difficulties in their publishing business.Guangming Daily had a valuable central-level administrative rank but was the country poorest major publisher, while "Nanfang" had money to invest but its administrative rank was restricting the publisher to obtain new publication number or expand outside their home province Guangdong.[3] According to another article byCongressional-Executive Commission on China, "theGuangming Daily consistently follows the Party's line, while the Southern Daily Press Group's [sic] publications tend to be more commercially-oriented and willing to test Chinese censors".[6]
In 2005, staff and online readers protested the sacking of the editors of the newspaper.[7]
In July 2011, the newspaper defied the ban on reportingWenzhou train collision.[8] However, in the same month, the newspaper scrapped 9 pages of special reporting.[9]
On 1 September 2011, the newspaper was taken over by the Publicity Department of theBeijing municipal committee of the Chinese Communist Party [zh].[1]
In 2013, it was reported that Dai Zigeng, a publisher of the newspaper, had verbally resigned due to political pressure from the propaganda authorities.[10][11]
In 2014, it was reported that the municipal propaganda department had acquired the remaining 49% stake from Nanfang Media Group.[12] According to theSouth China Morning Post, an English newspaper from Hong Kong, the general public were afraid thatThe Beijing News would be turned into a "propaganda mouthpiece".[12] In February 2014,The Beijing News, made a news coverage regardingZhou Yongkang's son possible corruption, but the article was taken down from the newspaper's website.[13]
In 2018, the merger of the newspapersThe Beijing News, theBeijing Morning Post [zh] and the news websiteqianlong.com (千龙网) was announced.[14]Beijing Morning Post ceased the publication in the same year.[15]
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