South China Morning Post
SCMP front page on 7 February 2018 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Alibaba Group |
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| Publisher | SCMP Publishers |
| President | Catherine So, CEO |
| Editor-in-chief | Tammy Tam |
| Managing editors | Zuraidah Ibrahim (executive), Yonden Lhatoo, Eugene Tang |
| Opinion editor | Robert Haddow |
| Sports editor | Joshua Ball (acting) |
| Photo editor | Robert Ng |
| Executive editor | Chow Chung-yan |
| Founded | 6 November 1903 (44,420 issues) |
| Headquarters | Global: Morning Post Centre 22 Dai Fat Street Tai Po Industrial Estate Tai Po, New Territories Hong Kong Overseas: 56 Mott Street New York, NY 10013 U.S. |
| ISSN | 1021-6731 (print) 1563-9371 (web) |
| OCLC number | 648902513 |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 南華早報 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 南华早报 | ||||||||||||
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The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained Hong Kong's newspaper of record since British colonial rule.: 251 Editor-in-chief Tammy Tam succeeded Wang Xiangwei in 2016. The SCMP prints paper editions in Hong Kong and operates an online news website that is blocked in mainland China.
The newspaper's circulation has been relatively stable for years—the average daily circulation stood at 100,000 in 2016. In a 2019 survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the SCMP was regarded relatively as the most credible paid newspaper in Hong Kong.
The SCMP was owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation from 1986 until it was acquired by Malaysian real estate tycoon Robert Kuok in 1993. On 5 April 2016, Alibaba Group acquired the media properties of the SCMP Group, including the SCMP. In January 2017, former Digg CEO Gary Liu became the SCMP's chief executive officer.
Since the change of ownership in 2016, concerns have been raised about the paper's editorial independence and self-censorship. Critics including The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Atlantic have alleged that the paper is on a mission to promote China's soft power abroad.