Taiwan news
Written by: Peng Yunlin
2021-05-14 17:18
Last update date: 2021-05-14 17:27
Taiwan’s "Apple Daily" announced today (14) that the paper newspaper has entered history. The last issue of the paper will be released on May 17, after which the "Apple News Network" will be transformed into an online media.
The picture shows the current status of Next Media's office building in Neihu District, Taipei City.
(Central News Agency)
"Apple Daily" announced as follows:
Eighteen years ago, on May 2nd, when the SARS epidemic in Taiwan was at its worst, the "Taiwan Apple Daily" announced its launch.
Now that good luck makes people, the new crown pneumonia has entered the community in Taiwan and caused panic across the country. Today, I want to announce to all readers with pain: "Taiwan Apple Daily" after its last newspaper publication on May 17, It will be discontinued from the 18th.
Over the past eighteen years, the "Taiwan Apple Daily" paper media has changed Taiwan's media environment with innovative content, but today, we are also changed by the media environment.
Due to continued operating losses, under very unavoidable circumstances, Next Media Group decided to suspend the publication of "Taiwan Apple Daily" and concentrate its resources on the development of "Apple News."
We believe that there is no media in Taiwan that values readers as much as we do: readers of our office will listen to your criticisms of our print media pages; "wrongs and criticisms" that you see in the newspapers every day will truly publish what you have done to us; follow you every day Hundreds of breaking news and complaint clues provided reveal all kinds of ugly or touching truths.
Everyday newspapers are put on the shelves, corrupt officials fear, criminals fear, and happy people love them. This is a portrayal of an apple a day that is close to the life of the Taiwanese people.
As the most expensive daily newspaper in Taiwan, there are still 100,000 copies sold every day. Thank you very much for the support of the readers over the past 18 years so that we can stick to it today.
We are the first full-color comprehensive newspaper in Taiwan and the first retail-oriented newspaper.
In a media environment with political stances, we are committed to building a newspaper that transcends blue and green, criticizing those in power, and also monitoring the opposition.
We get rid of the reporting style of traditional media, emphasizing that there are pictures and the truth, everything depends on the evidence to speak; we also create creative space for paper media, exquisite Wang Jianmin posters, year after year Oscars and domestic Golden Horse, Golden Bell, Golden Melody awards spreads The special issue and the large-scale pyrotechnics issue every New Year's Eve will accompany readers and fans through the most splendid time.
Apple blossoms and bears fruit, and "Taiwan Apple Daily" has long been the newspaper with the highest sales volume and the highest circulation rate in Taiwan.
However, the development of the Internet has completely changed the reading habits of readers. Although the "Taiwan Apple Daily" is a pioneer in the transformation of Taiwan's media, whether it is animation, film, real-time news, or even the online subscription system, we have the courage to try and change.
However, the digital torrent is beyond our imagination, especially the monopoly of digital platforms such as Google and Facebook, which has caused a large loss of advertising resources, which is a painful blow to the paper media.
The political situation in Hong Kong is deteriorating rapidly, democracy is in dust, and freedom of the press is being completely suppressed.
The founder, Li Zhiying, pursued democracy, but was convicted of speech, and is now imprisoned in a Hong Kong prison.
Pro-China forces blocked all kinds of advertising resources, making Hong Kong's "Apple Daily" extremely difficult to operate. Fortunately, thanks to the support of readers' belief in pursuing freedom, they still defend the most important bastion of freedom of the press.
"Taiwan Apple Daily" did not lose in the news battlefield, but internal and external pressures, we lost in another battlefield: the loss was monopolized in advertising resources, and the situation in Hong Kong deteriorated, causing us to be unable to sustain losses in the long-term, even if we tried to reduce them. Loss, still can not restore the decline.
I had to announce the suspension of paper publications and focus all resources on digital.
We hold ourselves accountable, and we must also deeply feel that we have not worked hard enough. We are ashamed to stop the publication of the paper "Taiwan Apple Daily", which is the last decision we are willing to make. But when this day comes, we can only tell readers Sorry deeply.
We deplore the discontinuation of the "Taiwan Apple Daily" paper, and deplore the disappearance of a newspaper that does not ask questions about blue or green, but only asks right and wrong; we deplore that public opinion has lost an outlet in traditional media; and that on the newspaper shelf, readers have lost an important choice.
But what we want to say, we reluctantly give up the paper, but we dare not and cannot give up our media responsibilities, our mouthpiece for the people, the pursuit of justice, and the defense of democracy and freedom.
Therefore, after the paper is closed, our solid interview team will focus more resources on "Apple News."
The spirit of "Apple" will not be discounted, it will only stand up even more, and return the readers who support it with the best report.
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