Today Daily News (Toronto)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Publisher | Herbert Moon |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Language | Chinese |
| Headquarters | 38 Milner Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M3S 3P8 |
| Official website | Official web site |
Today Daily News (現代日報 Pinyin: Xiàndài Rìbào) is a Chinese language newspaper in Canada, launched on November 12005. It is published by Today Daily News International in Scarborough.
It is called the Canada Eastern Edition (加東版 Pinyin: jiā dōng bǎn) even though it is the only edition published at the moment.
The paper is published 7 days a week in traditional Chinese in the broadsheet format. News coverage includes headline news, news at the metro and national levels, news from Greater China, Chinese community news, international news, entertainment, financial news, sports, and supplements.
The paper does not own its own printing press; printing is being contracted out to a printer.
Compared with the other three main Chinese newspapers, the reporting style of Today Daily News is relatively sensationalist. The reporting style seems to be approximately comparable to the Toronto Sun, but not as sensationalist as the likes of Apple Daily or the Hong Kong Sun.
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[edit] The online version
Today Daily News is also published online on the world wide web. The online version contains an exact copy of the day’s newspaper; back issues are online for 7 days. Access is free of charge, however, registration of account is required.
The online version of Today Daily News works in a way similar to the “ePaper” version of Oriental Daily News and Apple Daily and is very different from the way most online newspapers work:
- When a visitor visits the web site, the visitor is presented with a text menu for selecting the three publications (the paper, and the two supplements)
- Clicking on one of the three text links gives a GIF thumbnail image of the front page of the paper or supplement.
- Clicking the image leads to a new page with GIF thumbnail images of each of the major sections.
- Clicking any of the thumbnails of a section leads to a new page with GIF thumbnail images of each of the pages in that section.
- Finally, clicking the thumbnail image of any page leads to a new page containing an image of that page, consisting of 9 JPEG sub-images.
In other words, the online version of Today Daily News aims to give the visitor an experience comparable to reading a printed newspaper.
The way the online version works presents a number of accessibility problems:
- There is no search function;
- It is not possible to read the paper with text-based browsers (nor with screen readers, but screen readers for Chinese are not known to exist);
- Search engines will not be able to index the news stories reported by Today Daily News;
- It would not be understood by people who can only read simplified Chinese (who normally would be able to benefit from third-party utilities like NJStar, which can convert traditional Chinese text into simplified Chinese on the fly).
Nevertheless, some users like this format and cites a number of advantages:
- It feels like reading a real paper;
- It is possible to look up advertisements, which is sometimes helpful. Advertisers can also add hyperlink to their website.
[edit] Supplements (magazines)
Two weekly magazine are distributed free of charge as supplements:
- Saturday—Today BQ Magazine (現代北京青年週刊)is in tabloid size; it is a lifestyle-and-entertainment magazine from Beijing, China which is published in simplified Chinese.
It has the Home Guide Magazine contents inside, with information on Greater Toronto's new, resale and rental homes. Its editorial contents of home improvement and renovation originates from the Sun Media. Today BQ serves primarily the Mandarin-speaking Chinese immigrants from Mainland China.
- Sunday-701 is the most popular entertainment magazine, with hot gossips on celebrities and stars, fashion and fad from Hong Kong's Oriental Sunday(東方新地). It is printed in art glossy paper.
701 serves primarily the Cantonese-speaking Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong.
[edit] Launch
Today Daily News’ and its website http://www.todaydailynews.com
were launched in November, 2005.
[edit] Rivals
[edit] External references
- Official web site
- Source: Pinyin translated with CozyChinese.COM
