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The paper was founded as Singapore's second English-language newspaper by William Napier, Edward Boustead, Walter Scott Lorrain and George Drumgoole Coleman on 1 October 1835 as the Singapore Free Press & Mercantile Advertiser. [1] Napier edited the paper from foundation until 1846 when he returned to Scotland.
The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, [7] and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [ 8 ] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern ...
SPH Media Trust (SMT), trading as SPH Media, is a mass media company in Singapore.It was incorporated on July 19, 2021, as a company limited by guarantee, it was a spin off from Singapore Press Holdings as part of a restructuring.
The National Library Board and Singapore Press Holdings signed an agreement in 2007 to make digitised articles of The Straits Times available for public access at NLB libraries. NewspaperSG was launched on 28 January 2010.
Free Press senior editors Anjanette Delgado, James Hill and Jim Schaefer have been promoted to executive editor, with each overseeing different coverage areas in the newsroom.
Comprising the publishing, print, broadcasting, film, music, digital, and IT media sectors, the media industry collectively employed about 38,000 people and contributed 1.56% to Singapore's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2001 with an annual turnover of S$10 billion. The industry grew at an average rate of 7.7% annually from 1990 to 2000, and ...
The Singapore Free Press, which had folded in 1869, was revived by W.G. St. Clair, who edited it until 1916. The rival newspapers spurred readership among the growing English-reading community, with The Singapore Free Press published in the morning and The Straits Times released in the afternoon. [15]
On 8 January 2008, my Paper was relaunched as the first full-fledged bilingual newspaper in Singapore. [ 1 ] On 17 October 2016, Singapore Press Holdings announced a cut 10% of staff, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] that My Paper and The New Paper (TNP) will merge to form a revamped TNP that will be distributed free from 1 December 2016.