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Premature to write off newspaper industry 12 Jan 2021 / 11:56 H. The final edition of New Sabah Times.
PETALING JAYA: The obituary has already been written and published for many newspapers. Two Malaysian newspapers that have stopped rolling off the presses are the English daily
New Sabah Times and business daily
The Edge Financial Daily.
Those that still make it to the news-stands every morning are seeing their circulation dropping by the day as traditional readers pass on while many younger readers prefer social media for their news consumption.
The Covid-19 pandemic has only made things worse. Advertising revenue, the bread and butter of every newspaper, has hit
Published on: Sunday, January 03, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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New Sabah Times printing press-cum-editorial office.
IT NEVER crossed my mind to write this Special Report in the Daily Express. Last week, Editor-in-Chief, James Sarda, approached me and said: “Can you write something on Sabah Times – since you once worked there for many years?”
But obviously, what triggered this unusual story idea had to be a profoundly sad end of Sabah Times – Sabah’s first English daily closing for good on Dec 31, 2020 – 66 years after it was first founded by the late Tan Sri Yeh Pao Tzu who was also the founder of Daily Express in 1963.
Published on: Thursday, December 31, 2020
By: Bernama
Credit: nabalunews.com
Kota Kinabalu: The New Sabah Times will print its final edition today (Thursday), stopping the presses for good after more than six decades as one of the State’s oldest and reputable news sources.
The newspaper’s managing editor, Felix Gusti, said a sharp drop in circulation and falling ad revenue were the main reasons for the closure.
It was earlier scheduled to close on Dec 20, but Gusti said the company wanted to finish its newsprint before closing today (Thursday).
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Amin Muin, the paper’s Bahasa Melayu editor, confirmed that the staff were offered three months’ pay without (any other) compensation.