Editing World Journal (section)

==History==
The newspaper was established on February 12, 1976 in New York and San Francisco.<ref name="worldjournalbrief">{{cite web |title=世界日報簡介 |url=http://www.worldjournal.net/%e4%b8%96%e7%95%8c%e6%97%a5%e5%a0%b1%e7%b0%a1%e4%bb%8b/ |website=世界日報 }}</ref> The ''World Journal'' is one of three major Chinese-language dailies among the [[Chinese Americans|Chinese American community]]. The publication is owned by the same [[media conglomerate]] that runs the ''[[United Daily News]]'' in [[Taiwan]] and carries a significant Taiwanese American administrative presence.<ref name="cmmd" /> Until the mid-1990s, it was viewed as hostile to the [[People's Republic of China]], in part because the paper referred to people from [[mainland China]] as "Communist Chinese". Furthermore, its coverage on mainland China usually comprised only one article or so each day out of dozens of pages and sections.<ref>{{cite news |title=One China? Maybe, But 3 Newspapers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/nyregion/one-china-maybe-but-3-newspapers.html |work=The New York Times|date=19 January 1997 |last1=Lii |first1=Jane H. }}</ref>

However, the newspaper has changed since it began increasing its coverage of mainland China.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last1=Diamond |first1=Larry |url=https://www.hoover.org/research/chinas-influence-american-interests-promoting-constructive-vigilance |title=China's Influence and American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance |last2=Schell |first2=Orville |date=2019-08-01 |publisher=Hoover Press |isbn=978-0-8179-2286-3 |pages=108, 109 |language=en |oclc=1104533323 |author-link=Larry Diamond |author-link2=Orville Schell |access-date=September 4, 2022 }}</ref> Following the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre]], such coverage increased to two pages per day. While the paper still attempts to maintain an anti-communist stance,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Min Zhou|author-link=Min Zhou|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghKia5k6hXUC&q=%22world+journal%22+communist|title=Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation|date=2009-04-07|publisher=[[Temple University Press]]|isbn=978-1-59213-859-3|language=en}}</ref> it has become increasingly sensitive to the tastes of its large [[Chinese emigration|Chinese immigrant]] readership which has grown since the 1990s with the expanded access to [[permanent residence (United States)|permanent resident green cards]] in the United States following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Another reason for the shift was rooted in the newspaper's sympathy to the [[Democracy movements of China|Chinese democracy movement]].

Like its parent the ''United Daily News'', the ''World Journal'' is widely seen as taking an [[op-ed|editorial]] line that favors the [[Pan-Blue coalition]] and the [[Kuomintang]].<ref name="cmmd" /> Consequently, this editorial position has made it much less hostile toward the People's Republic since the 1990s. Immediately after the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]], the newspaper no longer referred indiscriminately to all mainland Chinese as "Communist Chinese", and additionally praised pro-democracy efforts on the mainland. During the mid-1990s, it began to give credit to the positive progress made in mainland China, and by the late-1990s, it began to criticize wrongdoings within the Chinese democracy movement and in the West in the same manner with which it criticizes corruption within the Chinese communist regime.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}} After 2000, there has also been an increase in the representation of mainland Chinese immigrants on the newspaper's reporting staff, and the paper has published readers' letters voicing different views from the pro-Taiwan independence stance that have also made it popular among mainland Chinese immigrants to the United States.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:WorldJournalHoustonTXoffices.JPG|thumb|The offices in [[Chinatown, Houston]] ([[Greater Sharpstown]])]]
''World Journal'' ceased publication in Canada on January 1, 2016, to better focus its business in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.today/20151223022422/http://www.worldjournal.com/3605507/article-%E6%BA%AB%E5%93%A5%E8%8F%AF%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E6%97%A5%E5%A0%B1-%E6%98%8E%E5%B9%B4%E5%85%83%E6%97%A6%E8%B5%B7%E5%81%9C%E5%88%8A/?ref=%E6%BA%AB%E5%93%A5%E8%8F%AF|title=溫哥華世界日報 明年元旦起停刊 - 世界新聞網|work=世界新聞網|date=2015-12-22}}</ref>