United Daily News
United Daily News (UDN; Chinese: 聯合報; pinyin: Liánhé Bào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liân-ha̍p-pò) is a newspaper published in Taiwan. It is considered to support the pan-Blue Coalition in its editorials.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | UDN Group |
| Founded | 16 September 1951 |
| Political alignment | Pan-Blue |
| Language | Traditional Chinese |
| Headquarters | No. 369 Datong Rd., Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| Website | www |
History
UDN was founded in 1951 by Wang Tiwu as a merger of three newspapers, Popular Daily (全民日報), National (民族報), and the Economic Times (經濟時報). The three newspapers formally merged in 1953. In terms of political orientation, the United Daily News is regarded as taking an editorial line that supports the pan-Blue Coalition. Before Taiwan democratized, it was an opponent of political reform; in the years since Taiwan has democratized, it has advocated policies encouraging cooperation with the mainland.[1][2] It is the third-biggest newspaper in Taiwan, ranking after the Liberty Times and the Apple Daily.
The evening edition of the paper, the United Evening News, was first published on February 22, 1968.[3] The evening paper shut down after publishing its final issue on June 1, 2020.[4][5]
In 2023, the UDN was noted to repeat Chinese government disinformation story about a supposed biological weapons lab under construction in Taiwan as well as the Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory.[6][7]
Contents
UDN was and to some extent still is a place to publish literature in the Lianhe Fukan literary supplement.
In editorial style and standards, UDN is one of the most literary of Taiwan's newspapers; the Chinese used is baihua vernacular, but heavily incorporates usages from classical wenyan Chinese. Once praised for its high standards, UDN has faced stiff competition in recent years, resulting in lowered readership and less money available for proof-reading.
UDN has spawned a group of newspapers, including UDN evening edition and UDN international edition, including an American edition published with the Chinese-American audience in mind.[8]
References
- Myung-Jin Park; James Curran (2000). De-Westernizing Media Studies. Routledge. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-0-415-19395-5.
- Jinquan Li (2000). Power, Money, and Media: Communication Patterns and Bureaucratic Control in Cultural China. Northwestern University Press. pp. 351–. ISBN 978-0-8101-1787-7. Archived from the original on 2023-07-12. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
- Shan, Shelley (2 June 2020). "Taiwan's last evening paper closes". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- Yen, Kuan-yin; Chiang, Yi-ching (June 1, 2020). "United Evening News shutting down after 32 years". Central News Agency. Archived from the original on June 9, 2020. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
- Chang, Eric (1 June 2020). "Taiwan's United Evening News to close shop after 32 years". Taiwan News. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- "Officials link biological weapons story to China". Taipei Times. 2023-07-13. Archived from the original on 2023-07-12. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- "China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation". The Economist. September 26, 2023. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
- Roderick MacFarquhar; John King Fairbank (1991). The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press. pp. 860–. ISBN 978-0-521-24337-7. Archived from the original on 2023-07-12. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
