Taipei Times
台北時報
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The Liberty Times Group
Founder(s)Lin Rong-San
PublisherThe Liberty Times Group
Founded15 June 1999 (1999-06-15)
Political alignmentPan-Green
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersTaipei, Taiwan
ISSN1563-9525
Websitewww.taipeitimes.com
Taipei Times
Traditional Chinese台北時報
Simplified Chinese台北时报

The Taipei Times is the last surviving English-language print newspaper in Taiwan.

History

Published by the Liberty Times Group, Taipei Times launched its first edition on 15 June 1999.[1] The Taipei Times claims to be the third English-language newspaper founded in Taiwan.[2]

In a column celebrating the paper's fifth anniversary, then-Taipei Times associate editor Laurence Eyton wrote that much of the initial planning of the paper was concluded over pints of Carlsberg in a pub with Anthony Lawrence, the paper's first managing editor.[3]

In 2002, the daily ciruclation stood at 280,000 copies.[4]

By 2017, Taipei Times would become the last daily print newspaper in Taiwan, after competitors Taiwan News and China Post switched to digital-only formats.[5]

The Taipei Times has been involved in several controversies over the years, including an argument with a member of the United States House of Representatives, a push for nuclear weapons under then-R.O.C. President Chen Shui-bian, and misleading readers about the origin of a letter to The Wall Street Journal.[6][7][8][9][10]

Editorial postions

Its editorial position leans toward Taiwan independence, disputes Filipino sovereignty of the Batanes Islands, and supports the development of Taiwan's own nuclear arsenal.[11][12][13][14] It is a participant in Project Syndicate.[15]

Opinion writers

See also

References

  1. Huang, Sandy (16 June 2002). "'Taipei Times' celebrates anniversary". Taipei Times. p. 1. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. "Taipei Times and Taiwan Timeline". Taipei Times. 15 June 2004. p. 24. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  3. "The \'Taipei Times\' grows up - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. 15 June 2004.
  4. Cheng, Kathy (12 April 2019). "It's Not Too Late to Save the Taipei Times". Tricky Taipei.
  5. Cheng, Kathy (12 April 2019). "It's Not Too Late to Save the Taipei Times". Tricky Taipei.
  6. "Faleomavaega: no friend of Taiwan". Taipei Times. 25 March 2009.
  7. "Faleomavaega says he will not bow to FAPA". Congressman Eni F. H. Faleomavaega. 27 March 2009. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014.
  8. "美科学家指扁主政时曾有意发展核武". 美国之音. 14 September 2010.
  9. "慕可舜與寇謐將". Liberty Times. 2 September 2011.
  10. "日媒諷藍營「AZ特攻隊」 鄭照新質疑「大內宣」:特定專欄作者觀點偏頗". 風傳媒 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 8 July 2021.
  11. 郭賽華 (2002). 語言與意識型態:台灣媒體論述分析 [Language and ideology: Taiwanese Media editorial analysis]. National Tsing Hua University Department of Foreign Languages. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. The data page is in Chinese and there are abstracts in both Chinese and English, but the document body is only in English.
  12. "Bashi Strait: a lesson in geography". Taipei Times. 23 September 2004.
  13. "Batan isles have never been part of Philippines". Taipei Times. 25 May 2013.
  14. "Taiwan needs nuclear deterrent". Taipei Times. 13 August 2004.
  15. "Member Papers". Project Syndicate. 16 August 2023.
  16. Cheung, Han. "Book Review: Charting Taiwan's future through its past". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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