South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post is a Hong Kong-based English-language daily newspaper covering news from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Asia. It provides political, business, and current-affairs reporting for regional and international readers. Owned by Alibaba Group, it is one of Asia's most prominent English-language news outlets.
South China Morning Post at a glance
- Country
- China
- Region
- East Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1903
- Owner
- Alibaba Group
- Published from
- Hong Kong
- Website
- scmp.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups South China Morning Post
Crosswire groups South China Morning Post as Centrist for comparisons within China's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In China, Global Times and CGTN are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open South China Morning Post beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where South China Morning Post sits in China's press
South China Morning Post was founded in 1903, is published from Hong Kong and is owned by Alibaba Group. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in China, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being China Daily, Global Times and People's Daily. By outlets tracked, China ranks first of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 67 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to South China Morning Post outside China, starting with East Asia, are Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan), The Korea Times (South Korea), Taipei Times (Taiwan) and South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). Opening one of them beside South China Morning Post is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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