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| Type | Free daily newspaper(except Sundays) |
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| Format | Compact / Tabloid |
| Owner | MediaCorp |
| Editor | Walter Fernandez |
| Founded | 27 April 2002 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters |  Singapore |
| Circulation | 621,000 (2008) |
| Website | TODAYonline |
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. There is no edition on Sunday.
The newspaper is distributed to selected homes and at MRT stations, bus interchanges, selected food and beverage outlets, shopping malls and other public areas. There are two editions to the paper, a morning and an afternoon edition.
TODAY's daily readership is around 621,000, or 17 per cent of Singapore's reader base, with more than half of its readers being professionals, managers, executives and business people.[citation needed] It is the second most-read English-language newspaper in Singapore, after The Straits Times. [1]
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History
It was launched on November 10, 2000, as a rival to Streats, another English-language freesheet published by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). Initially, it was available only on weekdays. On April 27, 2002, a weekend edition 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.
TODAY Online Easy Reader
Apart from the print version of the newspaper, the TODAY Online Easy Reader is an application which allows readers to read the newspaper online as they do in print. It also allows for the downloading of the digital version as a PDF Document.[2]
Suspension of mrbrown column
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 in his column discussing the rising cost of living in Singapore. [3]
References
- ^ "TODAY is Singapore's second most read daily". http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/383457/1/.html. Retrieved on 17 October 2008.
- ^ "Newspapers like Straits Times and Today go Web 2.0". http://blogscapes.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/newspapers-like-straits-times-and-today-go-web-20/. Retrieved on 28 September 2008.
- ^ Daily newspaper TODAY sacks blogger “mr brown” after government criticism, Reporters Without Borders, 6 July 2006
External links
- TODAYonline - TODAY's Official Website
- MediaCorp Print Overview
- SPH press release: "MediaCorp And Singapore Press Holdings Merge Their TV And Free Newspaper Operations"
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