Taiwan News
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Taiwan News (formerly China News<ref name="Wilcox1967">Template:Cite book</ref>) is an English and Chinese-language<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> online newspaper and former print newspaper in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was purchased by I-Mei Foods in the 1997, who eventually transitioned the publication to a fully online venture. I-Mei also publishes the Chinese-language news weekly of the same name.<ref name="taiwan-panorama">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The publication has a roster of foreign and Taiwanese reporters. It has business partnerships with Media Outreach, PR Newswire, Reuters, and Report Ocean.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Editorial positionEdit
Under the ownership of I-Mei Foods, Taiwan News changed its editorial stance from being pro-KMT to being in favor of the Pan-Green coalition and Taiwan independence.<ref name="taiwan-panorama" /><ref name="Lams2011" />Template:Rp According to former editor Anthony Lawrance, Taiwan News opposes autocracies and the People's Republic of China.<ref name="Lams2011" />Template:Rp In the late 1990s, Taiwan News rejected Chinese unification as advocated by the Kuomintang and associations of Taiwan with the People's Republic of China under the "one country, two systems" principle.<ref name="Lams2011" />
HistoryEdit
China News was founded on 6 June 1949 in Taipei by James Wei,<ref name="Reuters1999">Template:Cite news</ref> a journalist with close ties to the KMT and former employee of the Ministry of Information.<ref name="Lams2011">Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp The newspaper was established to cater for foreign residents and the local population in Taiwan.<ref name="Lams2011"/>Template:Rp At the time it was the only English-language daily newspaper in Taiwan and it was a newspaper published in the afternoon. Later on, in order to compete with its new competitor, China News had to change and was published in the morning in order not to lose its advertisements.<ref name="taiwan-panorama" />
In 1960, the newspaper switched to block printing in a full-size page format.<ref name=Wilcox1967 />
Wei left the newspaper in 1965. Wei was also a Reuters correspondent and deputy director of the Central News Agency. During his later years he was the sixth Director of the Government Information Office, serving from October 31, 1966, to June 1, 1972. Wei was a close advisor to Chiang Ching-kuo.<ref name="oac">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="twtd">Template:Cite news</ref>
China News ran into financial difficulties in 1996 and received capital injection from I-Mei Foods, but the management of the newspaper was unchanged.<ref name="Lams2011"/>Template:Rp In May 1999, I-Mei Foods acquired 50 percent stake in the newspaper for NTD$60 million (US$1.8 million).<ref name="Reuters1999"/> The newspaper's name was changed to Taiwan News to reflect the newspaper's new focus on readers in Taiwan and to avoid confusion with China Daily and China News Service.<ref name="Reuters1999"/> After the change in ownership, Taiwan News increased its page count and lowered staff wages.<ref name="FrazierScanlan">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="Reuters1999"/> Under the ownership of I-Mei Foods, Simone Wei became the newspaper's chairperson and I-Mei CEO Kao Chih-ming became the publisher.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
By 1998, 63 percent of Taiwan News' readership were local readers and the rest were businesspeople, diplomats, academics, teachers and students from outside Taiwan.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp Former editor Anthony Lawrance said in 2001 that Taiwan News mainly republished wire stories and had few articles with original reporting due to a lack of financial resources to hire English-speaking journalists and produce good translations from Chinese news articles, the high turnover of foreign editorial staff and the absence of an English speaking environment in Taiwan.<ref name="Lams2011"/>Template:Rp
In 2010, Taiwan News went digital and simultaneously ended its weekly financial and cultural magazine.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2015, Taiwan News became an all-digital publication when it ended all print editions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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