Macau Post Daily

Macau Post Daily
Macau Post Daily
Traditional Chinese	澳門郵報
Simplified Chinese	澳门邮报
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Àomén Yóubào
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	ou3 mun4*2 jau4 bou3

The Macau Post Daily
"Your trustworthy source of news & views"
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Compact Newspaper
Owner(s)	Macau Everbright Publishing, Editing & Consultancy Company Limited.
Editor-in-chief	Harald Brüning
Founded	2004
Headquarters	39 Rua dos Mercadores, Centro Comercial Ou Chong, 5D, Macau
Country	Macau, China
Circulation	4,500 daily on weekdays
ISSN	1813-2898
Website	www.macaupostdaily.com

The Macau Post Daily (Chinese: 澳門郵報) (sometimes abbreviated to MPD) was launched on August 27, 2004, and is Macau's oldest and highest paid-circulation English-language daily newspaper.

The Macau Post Daily is a compact newspaper, i.e., a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format.

History

It is owned by Macau Everbright Co. Ltd, a publishing company set up by a group of local journalists, and printed by Welfare Printing Ltd, with offices in a downtown commercial centre on Rua dos Mercadores. The newspaper, whose print edition is published on weekdays, is independent of non-media business interests and emphasizes its "equidistance" towards Macau's six gaming companies.^{[citation needed]}

Content

The paper was launched to provide Macau with an independent English-language daily that caters for all its different communities interested in reading news in the world's "universal language," not just expatriates. About half of the daily's readership are local Chinese, Portuguese and Macanese permanent residents, while the remainder are visitors, scholars, consultants, diplomats and others. The newspaper's coverage is based on the principles of professional journalism, i.e., separating news and opinion, following the "5Ws" guideline, attributing sources and captioning and crediting news photos and other images). It is also focused on highlighting the importance of multicultural tolerance and understanding, as well as Macau's unique tangible and intangible cultural heritage. According to its founding editorial, the newspaper adheres to the "One China" and "One Country, Two Systems" principles.^{[citation needed]}

The newspaper is the world's only English-language newspaper to publish daily news articles and features about the Lusophone world. It also publishes a daily news page about the Philippines. Its Page 4 is dedicated to photo-features about Macau's cultural and artistic events. Its local news, features and photos as well as opinion articles are available on its website. All its articles and photos are attributed to their sources. Its local news articles are also released on Facebook (some of them in Chinese) and linked to Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

Circulation

In its 21st year of publication, The Macau Post Daily has a daily print run of about 5,000, including around 700 copies distributed outside Macau. Subscriptions account for about 60 percent of the newspaper's circulation.

Team

The newspaper, which is headed by veteran Macau correspondent Harald Brüning, routinely offers internships to students from Macau, mainland China, Taiwan and elsewhere. Since its founding in 2004, about 85 interns have worked at the newspaper. Usually, the company has around 20 full- and part-time staff members.