Newspapers of Hong Kong

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Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest newspapers. The territory has one of the world's largest press industries and is a major centre for print journalism.

See also Newspapers of Macau.

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By a wide margin, the South China Morning Post is the most popular English newspaper. Among Cantonese newspapers, Oriental Daily and Apple Daily are the top sellers, while the Hong Kong Economic Times is the best-selling financial newspaper. According to independent surveys, Ming Pao and Hong Kong Economic Journal are the papers most trusted by local readers.

The fact that The Sun and Oriental Daily are among those with the highest circulation can be explained by their approach. Both use an informal style, concentrating on celebrity gossip and paparazzi photography, and written to some degree in colloquial Cantonese phrases. This style of writing, as in other markets, is popular with a large section of the public. The content is often exaggerated or outright fabricated in order to claim "exclusives". Although the subjects of these alleged falsehoods have tried to express their dissatifaction through actions such as refusing interviews or even suing the reporters, they have not succeeded in stopping the papers' activities.

The number of newspapers in the market has been stable for a long time. There are occasional attempts at establishing new types of newspaper and theme-oriented papers, but most of these new papers cannot compete with the more mainstream papers.

Most papers sell for a fixed price of HKD$6, except the South China Morning Post ($7, while the Sunday edition costs $8). Metropolis Daily, Headline Daily, am730, and The Epoch Times are free papers, distributed at MTR stations. The Sun has reduced its price to $3 from October 19, 2005 onwards, supposedly for the purpose of competing with the free newspapers.

Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Sing Pao, and Wen Wei Po are all considered pro-Beijing and pro-government; Oriental Daily, 'The Sun and Sing Tao are considered as slightly pro-Beijing and pro-government; and Apple Daily often takes an anti-Beijing and pro-democracy stance. Oriental Daily, Apple Daily and The Sun are known for their sensational style, often gory pictures (e.g. of road accidents or murder scenes), and frequent borderline obscene coverage (including "prostitution guides"). Ming Pao and Sing Tao are considered as "serious" papers and are favoured by students and intellectuals. Hong Kong Economic Journal and Hong Kong Economic Times are business-oriented.

South China Morning Post and The Standard are both regarded as "serious" newspapers, and generally considered as neutral towards the government, though with the Post slightly more "establishment-leaning" and the Standard a little more liberal in its editorial stance. The Standard now presents itself as a business paper, but also carries general news. From September 10, 2007 it switched to free (advertising-supported) distribution.

The regional English language newspaper The Wall Street Journal Asia is also published in Hong Kong; the Asian editions of the International Herald Tribune and Financial Times are also available in the city.

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