Macau Post Daily

The Macau Post Daily

"Your trusted source for real news"
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Compact Newspaper
Owner(s)	Macau Everbright Publishing, Editing & Consultancy Company Limited.
Publisher	Harald Brüning
Editor-in-chief	Harald Brüning
Managing editor	Lesley Wells
Founded	2004 (2004)
Headquarters	Rua dos Mercadores, n.º 39, Centro Comercial Ou Chong, 5D, Macau
Country	Macau, China
Circulation	4,500 daily on weekdays
ISSN	1813-2898
Website	www.macaupostdaily.com

The Macau Post Daily (Chinese: 澳門郵報) (sometimes abbreviated to MPD) was launched on August 27, 2004, and is Macau's oldest and highest paid-circulation English-language daily newspaper.

The Macau Post Daily is a compact newspaper, i.e., a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format.

History

It is owned by Macau Everbright Co. Ltd, a publishing company set up by a group of local journalists, and printed by Welfare Printing Ltd, with offices in a downtown commercial centre on Rua dos Mercadores. The newspaper, whose print edition is published on weekdays, is independent of non-media business interests and emphasizes its "equidistance" towards Macau's six gaming companies.^{[citation needed]}

Content

The paper was launched to provide Macau with an independent English-language daily that caters for all its different communities interested in reading news in the world's "universal language," not just expatriates. About half of the daily's readership are local Chinese, Portuguese and Macanese residents, while the remainder are expatriates and tourists. The newspaper's reporting is focused on highlighting the importance of multicultural tolerance and understanding, as well as Macau's unique tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The newspaper adheres to the "One China" and "One Country, Two Systems" principles.^{[citation needed]}

The newspaper is the world's only English-language newspaper to publish a daily general news page about the Lusophone world. It also publishes a daily news page about the Philippines. Its Page 4 is dedicated to photo-features about Macau's cultural and artistic events. Its local news, features and photos as well as opinion articles are available on its website. All its articles and photos are attributed to their sources. Its local news articles are also released on Facebook (some of them in Chinese) and linked to Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

Circulation

In its 20th year of publication, The Macau Post Daily has a daily circulation of about 4.500, including around 700 copies distributed in Hong Kong and overseas. Subscriptions account for about 60 percent of the newspaper's circulation. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has affected Macau since early 2020, the daily print run has been cut by about 10 pct but its digital readership has more than doubled.^{[citation needed]}

Team

The newspaper, which is headed by veteran Macau correspondent Harald Brüning,routinely offers internships to students from Macau, mainland China, Taiwan and elsewhere. Since its founding in 2004, about 80 interns have worked at the newspaper. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been fewer internships since early 2020 than in previous years.

See also

• Media of Macau

External links

• Official website

This page was last edited on 19 April 2024, at 01:55