Wen Wei Po

"Wen Wei Po" (] or aircraft carrier program.

In this regard, the "Wenhui Journal" shares the privilege of been provided with exclusive high-tech news with newsgroups targeting the same readership such as the Hong Kong "Da Gong Journal" （《大公报》） or the "Beijing Youth Daily" （《北京青年报》）.

Market/Target

"Wen Wei Po" is authorized for distribution in Macau and mainland China. Tourists can get copies of "Wen Wei Po" easily from hotels in large cities of the mainland. "Wen Wei Po" has a greater circulation in the mainland than in Hong Kong.

As one of the most popular Hong Kong newspapers in the mainland, "Wen Wei Po" publishes a lot of advertisements from enterprises of different cities in the mainland. Even for the online version, there are a lot of mainland advertisements, and the newspaper's advertisement revenue is mainly supported by the mainland China market.

tyle

"Wen Wei Po" is regarded as a newspaper which is pro- Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China government. Consequently, the reports are mainly on the "brighter" and the more positive side of China.

The paper is also considered as a "cleaner" paper as it includes fewer sensational reports and bloody pictures. Its reports on issues other than politics and China are considered as more reliable.

Credibility

The credility of "Wen Wei Po" can be shown in the survey conducted by the Department of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, entitled "Press Freedom and Political Transition in Hong Kong:A Summary of the Hong Kong Journalist Survey 1996". "Wen Wei Po" gained a mean of 4.68 mark, where the maximum mark is 10, among local media organizations.

"Press Freedom and Political Transition in Hong Kong:A Summary of the Hong Kong Journalist Survey 1996":
*http://www.cuhk.hk/97event/research/renglish.html

Wen Wei Po in the world

Its 33 official agencies in the mainland, including Beijing, Shanghai and Yunnan, help the paper gather news in the mainland and establish relationships with local officials/advertisers. It also has correspondents in major cities in the world, such as Tokyo, London and New York.

"Wen Wei Po" has 5 overseas editions. The latest edition is the Philippines edition, which was established in Manila on October 8, 2003. The other overseas editions are published in San Francisco , USA, Jakarta in Indonesia, Toronto in Canada and Bangkok in Thailand. It also has a European edition and a flight edition.

DVD Archives of "Wen Wei Po"

"Wen Wei Po" distributes a set of 13 DVD which contains all the content, including text, graphs and photographs of the newspaper in the period 1939-1998. Users can search the information they want by keywords.

hanghai Wen Hui Bao

The Shanghai "Wen Hui Bao", with the same Chinese name 文汇报, is another newspaper and independent from the Hong Kong "Wen Wei Po". In 1997, "Wen Hui Bao" merged with the "Shanghai Xinmin Evening News" (新民晚報) to form Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group (文匯新民聯合報業集團); the hearsay has been the fact that the former was in need of financial assistance.

"Shanghai Xinmin Evening News" is the most popular evening post in China which has a huge market share. Shanghai "Wen Hui Bao", as an official newspaper in Shanghai which often contained conservative and dull ideas, had lost many of its readers. As a result, these two newspapers combined together under economic considerations, with a backdown of political considerations. Hong Kong "Wen Wei Po" has a different management team and does not belong to Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group.

ee also

*Media in Hong Kong
*Newspapers of Hong Kong
*"Da Gong Journal" （《大公报》）
*"Beijing Youth Daily" （《北京青年报》）
*Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group (文匯新民聯合報業集團)
*"Shanghai Xinmin Evening News" (新民晚報)

References

External links

*http://www.wenweipo.com (Hong Kong version of "Wen Wei Po")
*http://www.hkwwp-ynnews.com (Yunnan version of "Wen Wei Po")