Sharp Daily
| Type | Free daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Next Media |
| Founded | October 24, 2006 |
| Headquarters |
141 Sing-Ai Road Neihu Industrial Park, Taipei City 114 Taiwan |
| Official website | http://sharp.1-apple.com.tw/ |
Sharp Daily (Chinese: 爽報; pinyin: Shuǎng Bào; Cantonese Yale: Sóng Bou) is a Chinese-language free daily tabloid newspaper, published in Taipei, Taiwan and Hong Kong by Next Media.
Taiwan edition
Launched on October 24, 2006 as a rival to Cola (可樂報 Pinyin:Kělèbào), another free tabloid published by United Daily Newspaper (聯合報 Pinyin: Liánhébào ), Sharp Daily shares news content with the Taiwanese Apple Daily. According to Forbes each copy costs 2.8 New Taiwan dollars to produce and its target readership is "the train-riding working class" [1]
Hong Kong edition
Sharp Daily was launched in Hong Kong on 19 September 2011 with a stated aim of 1 million copies per day.[2] It was also the first free tabloid newspapers in Hong Kong to have an evening edition, although it was dropped in March 2012.[3] The Hong Kong edition of Sharp Daily was closed down on 21 October 2013 after the owner Jimmy Lai revealed that the newspaper had lost several hundred millions of Hong Kong dollars in two years.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Vivian Wai-yin Kwok, Lai Chases Taipei Commuters, Forbes.com, October 19, 2006
- ↑ 港版《爽報》目標：日派 100萬份 免費報章進入戰國時代 Apple Daily Hong Kong. 2011年08月06日
- ↑ New Evening Post relaunched to back Beijing loyalists in election SCMP Hong Kong
- ↑ Apple's free sister paper Sharp Daily folds after losing millions SCMP Hong Kong
References
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- Pinyin translated with CozyChinese.COM