Sampan Newspaper

Infobox_Company
company_name = Sampan Newspaper
company_
company_type = Nonprofit
foundation = 1972
location = Boston, Massachusetts
key_people = Adam Smith, Anita Chang, Editors
industry = Media
products = Newspaper
num_employees = Three
homepage = [http://www.sampan.org/ sampan.org]

"Sampan" is a newspaper based in Chinatown in Boston, Massachusetts. It is New England's only bilingual Chinese and English newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1972 by volunteers of the Asian American Civic Association, then known as the Chinese American Civic Association; its slogan is "Boston's oldest bilingual Chinese-English newspaper since 1972". It is distributed throughout Greater Boston and covers news of Boston's Chinatown as well as the Greater Boston Asian American community.

The word "Sampan" means a little boat, which is used by East Asians primarily to transport goods. It is a metaphor, which symbolizes that this newspaper would bring news of the Chinese community, in both Chinese and English, around the city of Boston, providing a means to acquire information about the community to non-English speakers as well as non-Chinese speakers.

The Sampan Newspaper primarily reports on the news of Chinatown and Asian Americans of Greater Boston. As a free, nonprofit newspaper, Sampan makes its profit almost entirely by advertisements.

External links

* [http://www.sampan.org/ Sampan Newspaper]
* [http://www.aaca-boston.org/ Asian American Civic Association]
* [http://www.chinatownboston.com/ Chinatown Boston Web Development Program]
* [http://ben-yosef.com/pics/chinatown/ Photos of Boston's Chinatown]