Wen Wei Po
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Next Media |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | 8 Chun Ying Street T.K.O Industrial Estate West, Tseung Kwan O Hong Kong |
| Official website | http://www.atnext.com/ |
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| Traditional Chinese | 文匯報 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 文汇报 | ||||||
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Wen Wei Po is a Hong Kong-based Chinese language newspaper, which was first established in Shanghai in January 1938; its Hong Kong version was launched on 9 September 1948.
The publishing of Wen Wei Po aims at supporting New China, that is the People's Republic of China and delivering the latest development of the Mainland to readers, especially that of the recent 20 years. A rare exception was the 1989 editorial board openly objected the use of force in 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, and as a consequence the editorial was replaced shortly thereafter.
Apart from this, Wen Wei Po also delivers the latest news and development of Hong Kong in all aspects, with comments and editorials on these issues.
Wen Wei Po is an officially recognised newspaper for publishing legal advertisements under the direction of the government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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[edit] Content
Wen Wei Po has around 48 pages everyday and a variety of sections, including news, sports and entertainment. Compared with other newspapers in Hong Kong, it has more coverage of mainland China's politics, economy, society, education and culture, but fewer entertainment or human interest stories. Recently the newspaper has started sending journalists to gather news about PRC leaders' visits around China.
[edit] Space and military news
Wen Wei Po is known to periodically leak first hand information about the PRC's space program and military build up. Typical examples are the advanced launch date of the Shenzhou 7 mission,[1] information revealed on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the journal's establishment, space shuttle program[2] or aircraft carrier program.
In this regard, the Wen Wei Po shares the privilege of being provided with exclusive high-tech news with newsgroups targeting the same readership such as the Hong Kong Da Gong Journal or the Beijing Youth Daily.
[edit] Market/Target
Wen Wei Po is authorised for distribution in Macau and mainland China. Tourists can get copies of Wen Wei Po easily from hotels in large cities of the mainland. Wen Wei Po has a greater circulation in the mainland than in Hong Kong.
As one of the most popular Hong Kong newspapers in the mainland, Wen Wei Po publishes a lot of advertisements from enterprises of different cities in the mainland. Even for the online version, there are a lot of mainland advertisements, and the newspaper's advertisement revenue is mainly supported by the mainland China market.
[edit] Style
Wen Wei Po is regarded as a newspaper which is pro- Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China government. Consequently, the reports are mainly on the "brighter" and the more positive side of China.
The paper is also considered as a "cleaner" paper as it includes fewer sensational reports and bloody pictures. Its reports on issues other than politics and China are considered as more reliable.
According to The Challenge of Hong Kong’s Reintegration With China, a book written by Ming K. Chan, Wen Wei Po is a "mouthpiece" of the PRC government.
Despite their low credibility and dismay circulation in Hong Kong, these mouthpieces are well-financed by advertising revenues from the PRC companies...Wen Wei Po has received more funds...Both papers print many Xinhua-initiated commentaries under pseudonym aimed to criticize and intimate China's critics.[3]
[edit] Credibility
The credility of Wen Wei Po can be shown in the survey conducted by the Department of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, entitled "Press Freedom and Political Transition in Hong Kong:A Summary of the Hong Kong Journalist Survey 1996". Wen Wei Po gained a mean of 4.68 mark, where the maximum mark is 10, among local media organisations. This placed it at No. 24 of 29 organisations.
Press Freedom and Political Transition in Hong Kong:A Summary of the Hong Kong Journalist Survey 1996:
RTHK reported that, four separate public surveys had been conducted in 1997, 2001, 2006, 2009, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Wen Wei Po is ranked near bottom on the media credibility scale in all four occasions.[4]
[edit] Wen Wei Po in the world
Its 33 official agencies in the mainland, including Beijing, Shanghai and Yunnan, help the paper gather news in the mainland and establish relationships with local officials/advertisers. It also has correspondents in major cities in the world, such as Tokyo, London and New York.
Wen Wei Po has 5 overseas editions. The latest edition is the Philippines edition, which was established in Manila on 8 October 2003. The other overseas editions are published in San Francisco , USA, Jakarta in Indonesia, Toronto in Canada and Bangkok in Thailand. It also has a European edition and a flight edition.
[edit] DVD Archives of Wen Wei Po
Wen Wei Po distributes a set of 13 DVD which contains all the content, including text, graphs and photographs of the newspaper in the period 1939–1998. Users can search the information they want by keywords.
[edit] Shanghai Wen Hui Bao
The Shanghai Wen Hui Bao, with the same Chinese name 文汇报, is another newspaper and independent from the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po. In 1997, Wen Hui Bao merged with the Shanghai Xinmin Evening News (新民晚報) to form Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group (文匯新民聯合報業集團).
[edit] See also
- Media in Hong Kong
- Newspapers of Hong Kong
- Da Gong Journal （《大公报》）
- Beijing Youth Daily （《北京青年报》）
- Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group (文匯新民聯合報業集團)
- Shanghai Xinmin Evening News (新民晚報)
[edit] References
- ^ "神舟七号提前至月底升空". Wen Wei Po. 2 September 2008. http://trans.wenweipo.com/gb/paper.wenweipo.com/2008/09/02/YO0809020007.htm. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
- ^ "国产空天飞机三年内试飞". Wen Wei Po. 10 December 2007. http://paper.wenweipo.com/2007/12/11/CH0712110034.htm?. Retrieved 4 September 2008.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=lEBCxR-4dqYC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=media+credibility+of+Wen+Wei+Po&source=bl&ots=WKJ5VNLqnV&sig=lnEclJJ53VYjdTLx3ID_ikTfC7Y&hl=zh-CN&ei=bHetTbnCMoL6sAO2kumSAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
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[edit] External links
- http://www.wenweipo.com (Hong Kong version of Wen Wei Po)
- http://www.hkwwp-ynnews.com (Yunnan version of Wen Wei Po)
