List of newspapers in Taiwan
This is a list of newspapers published in Taiwan.
Corporate media
Major Mandarin-language newspapers
There are three major newspapers in Taiwan.[1]
Name Chinese Names Owner Established Circulation Political
alignmentPolitical party support
in the 2018 local electionLiberty Times 自由時報 Liberty Times Group 1980 529,178 [2] Centre-left, Liberal, Pan-Green Democratic Progressive Party United Daily News 聯合報 United Daily News Group 1951 210,000 [3] Centre-Right, Conservative, Pan-Blue Kuomintang China Times 中國時報 Want Want China Times Group 1950 135,000[4] Centre-Right, Conservative, Pan-Blue Kuomintang
English-language newspapers
Name Chinese Names Owner Established Political
alignmentNotes Taipei Times 台北時報 Liberty Times Group 1999 Pan-Green Taiwan News 臺灣英文新聞 Luis Ko 1949 Pan-Green Ended its printed edition and switched to all digital format in 2015 The China Post 英文中國郵報 The China Post Group 1952 Pan-Blue Ended its printed edition and switched to all digital format in 2010
Government-owned media
Chinese news media
- Central News Agency (中央通訊社) – National news agency of the Republic of China
- Youth Daily News (青年日報) – operated by the Ministry of National Defense
- Kinmen Daily News (金門日報) – in Kinmen, operated by Kinmen County Government.
- Matsu Daily (馬祖日報) – in Matsu Islands, operated by Lienchiang County Government.
English news media
- Focus Taiwan – operated by the Central News Agency (Taiwan), a National news agency of the Republic of China
- Taiwan Today – operated by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China. The newspaper was formerly known as the Taiwan Journal
Regional newspapers
- China Daily News (中華日報) – in Tainan (Southern Taiwan)
- Keng Sheng Daily News (更生日報) – in Hualien and Taitung.
- Eastern Express News (東方快報) – in Hualien
- Taiwan Times (臺灣時報) – in Kaohsiung (Southern Taiwan)
- Taiwan Report (臺灣導報) – in Kaohsiung (Southern Taiwan)
- Real Daily (真晨報) - in Kaohsiung (Southern Taiwan)
- Taiwan News Daily (臺灣新聞報) - in Kaohsiung (Southern Taiwan)
- The Commons Daily (民眾日報) - in Kaohsiung (Southern Taiwan)
- News Taiwan (台灣好報) - in Kaohsiung (Southern Taiwan)
- Taichung News Daily (台中日報) - in Taichung (Central Taiwan)
- Taichung News Evening(台中晚報) - in Taichung (Central Taiwan)
- Taichung Times(台中時報) - in Taichung (Central Taiwan)
- Focus Times (焦點時報) - in Taichung (Central Taiwan)
- Hanxi Press (旱溪地區報) - in Taichung (Central Taiwan)
- New Era Times (新一代時報) - in Taichung (Central Taiwan)
- Lugang Times (鹿港時報) - in Lukang (Central Taiwan)
- Penghu Daily (澎湖日報) - in Penghu
- Penghu Times (澎湖時報) - in Penghu
Other newspapers
- Commercial Times (工商時報) – in the same group as China Times
- Economic Daily News (經濟日報) – in the same group as United Daily News
- Mandarin Daily News (國語日報) – a children-facing news paper, all Traditional Chinese characters are annotated with Mandarin Phonetic Symbols.
- The Epoch Times (大紀元時報)
- United Evening News (聯合晚報) – in the same group as United Daily News
- Want Daily (旺報) – In the same group as China Times
Online news media
Most of the Taiwanese national and regional printed newspapers, as well as TV stations have their own online news channels. The following lists only the fully online news media.
Chinese news media
- Independent Evening News (自立晚報) – was also a printed newspaper until 2001.
- New Talk (新頭殼)
- Taiwan People News (民報)
- The News Lens (關鍵評論網) – bilingual news in English and Chinese
Defunct newspapers
- Central Daily News (中央日報) – operated by Kuomintang, a political party, ceased publication in 2006
- China Times Express (中時晚報) – in the same group as China Times, published between 1988 and 2005
- Min Sheng Bao (民生報)
- Taiwan Daily (台灣日報) – publication ended in June 2006
See also
- Media of Taiwan
- Television in Taiwan
- National Communications Commission
- Central News Agency (Taiwan)
