New Evening Post
The New Evening Post (Chinese: 新晚報) was a Hong Kong newspaper. It was the evening edition of Ta Kung Pao. It started printing on October 15, 1950 and stopped printing on July 27, 1997.[1]
| Type | Night newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founded | October 5, 1950 |
| Political alignment | Pro-Communist |
| Language | Chinese (in Traditional Chinese characters) |
| Ceased publication | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong SAR, China |
| Sister newspapers | Ta Kung Pao |
| New Evening Post | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 新晚報 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新晚报 | ||||||
| |||||||
The famous novelist Jin Yong was an editor there in 1952. Jin Yong later founded Ming Pao.
Namesake
In August 2012, a namesake free tabloid newspaper[2] was launched by a company that was chaired by Ha Ping (Chinese: 夏萍).[3] In 2014 it was ceased publication.[4]
References
- Lai, C. P. Media in Hong Kong: Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005; Routledge:New York City; pp 117–145.
- "New Evening Post relaunched to back Beijing loyalists in election". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong.
- 新晚報復刊變免費 期3年回本. Wen Wei Po (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 21 August 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- 复刊两年免费变收费 香港《新晚报》再次停刊 (in Chinese). China News Service. 29 March 2014. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.