MediaCorp Press TODAY
Editor	Mano Sabnani
Categories	Tabloid,News, Entertainment
Frequency	5 Weekday Edn + 1 Weekend Edn
First issue	27 April 2002
Company	MediaCorp
Country	Singapore
Language	English
Website	TODAYonline
ISSN	unknown

Today (Chinese: 今日报) is a free English-language tabloid in Singapore published by government-owned Mediacorp Press. It is distributed from Monday to Friday with a weekend Edition on Saturday. It also has a website where a PDF copy of their newspaper can be downloaded.

A compact newspaper with quality content that is distributed free in Singapore, Today was launched in November 2000. TODAY has established a reputation for sharply angled news reports and thought-provoking analyses and commentaries, living up to its slogan "We set you thinking". The paper's news comment columns - written by staff and a wide range of contributors and covering both local and global issues - are a particular strength.

A man hands out Today to commuters at Raffles Place MRT Station. Besides MRT stations, the tabloid can also be found at bus interchanges, selected food and beverage outlets, shopping malls and other public areas.

TODAY's daily readership is around 550,000, with more than half its readers being professionals, managers, executives, and business people. The paper is distributed to selected homes, and it is also available at MRT stations, bus interchanges, selected food and beverage outlets, shopping malls and other public areas.

It was launched on 10 November, 2000, as a rival to Streats, another free tabloid published by Singapore Press Holdings. Initially, it was available only on weekdays. On 27 April 2002, a weekend version of the tabloid, Weekend Today, was launched, which is available on Saturdays. Weekend Today was developed as a longer and leisurely read for the weekends, is distributed to more than 150,000 homes and available free-of-charge at the usual distribution outlets.

In 2004, Streats was merged into Today as a result of SPH and MediaCorp merging their television and free newspaper operations.

On July 6, 2006, Today suspended a weekly opinion column by Lee Kin Mun (alias: mr brown) after the government criticised an article he wrote for his column discussing the rising cost of living in Singapore. ^[1]

References

1. ^ Daily newspaper Today sacks blogger “mr brown” after government criticism, Reporters Without Borders, 6 July 2006

External links

• TODAYonline - Today's website
• MediaCorp Press home page
• SPH press release: "MediaCorp And Singapore Press Holdings Merge Their TV And Free Newspaper Operations"

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