The New Paper: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Singaporean newspaper}}

| name = The New Paper

| logo = The New Paper (sg) (2021-01-21).svg

| image = The New Paper frontpage 2024-04-02.png

| caption = Homepage of ''The New Paper'' website on 2 April 2024

| type = Daily [[newspaper]]

| format = Digital

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1988|07|26|df=yes}}<br />({{Age in days|1988|07|26|format=commas}} issues)

| ceased publication =

| owners = [[SPH Media]]

| publisher =

| editor = [[Lim Han Ming]]

| language = [[English language|English]]

| political =

| circulation = Target 300,000 daily

| headquarters = Singapore

| ISSN =

| website = {{URL|tnp.straitstimes.com}}

'''''The New Paper''''' is a Singaporean newspaper. It was originally published in [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] format as a "noon paper", then from 2016 as a [[freesheet]] in the morning from 7&nbsp;a.m. onwards. In December 2021 the paper went to digital only.<ref name=digital/>

First launched on26 July 1988, by [[Singapore Press Holdings]] (SPH), it had an average daily circulation of 101,600 in August 2010, according to SPH.<ref name="SPH">{{cite web|title=Our products: The New Paper|url=http://www.sph.com.sg/ourproducts_newspaper_tnp.shtml|publisher=Singapore Press Holdings}}</ref>

In 1991, the paper organised the [[New Paper Big Walk]], a mass-participation walking event. The event came to be held annually in Singapore. It holds the official Guinness World Record as world's largest walk when a record-breaking 77,500 participants joined on 21 May 2000.

There is also a noon edition that hits the newsstands on Mondays and Thursdays that gives more special coverage of late-night [[association football]] matches that occur after the morning edition goes to press. ''The New Paper'' was Singapore's second-highest circulating paid [[English-language]] newspaper before it became a free newspaper on 1 December 2016.<ref name="TNP">{{Cite web |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/tnp-and-my-paper-to-merge |title=TNP and My Paper to merge |website=The Straits Times |access-date=4 May 2019 |date=18 October 2016}}</ref>

''The New Paper'' is noted for its coverage of sports news, particularly of [[association football]] (e.g. the [[UEFA Champions League]] and the [[Premier League]]). Amongst its sports journalists, [[Iain Macintosh]] was voted second runner-up for Best Football Journalist held by Soccerlens.com website in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://soccerlensawards.com/best-football-journalist/|title=Best Football Journalist - Soccerlens Awards - The best football sites|website=soccerlensawards.com}}</ref>

On 15 June 1993, in partnership with distributor Lityan Systems, both parties launched a one-step video programmer,to help readers key in the four-digit codes assigned for the programmes listed in the television guides published in The New Paper. The device cost $125.<ref>{{cite news |title=For easier TV recording |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19930616-1.2.27.12.3 |access-date=23 December 2023 |work=The Straits Times |date=16 June 1993}}</ref>

FiRST which was originally published as a monthly magazine, merged with ''The New Paper'' in May 2009, and was published as a weekly pull-out rather than monthly.

The newspaper's average daily sales had dropped to 60,000, according to Warren Fernandez, Editor-in-Chief of the English/Malay/Tamil Media group of SPH, before it became a freesheet.<ref>{{cite news | title=The New Paper will be revamped, free from December|url=https://tnp.straitstimes.com/news/singapore-news/new-paper-will-be-revamped-free-december}}</ref>

On 17 October 2016, Singapore Press Holdings announced a 10% cut of staff,<ref>{{cite news | title=SPH to cut 10% of staff; My Paper and The New Paper to merge|url= http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/sph-to-cut-10-of-staff-my-paper-and-the-new-paper-to-merge/3212490.html |access-date=28 October 2016|publisher= [[Channel NewsAsia]]|date= 17 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last1= Tan | first1= Angela | title=SPH to merge My Paper and TNP, to cut up to 10% staff in right-sizing exercise|url= http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/sph-to-merge-my-paper-and-tnp-to-cut-up-to-10-staff-in-right-sizing-exercise/|access-date=28 October 2016|publisher= [[Business Times (Singapore)]]|date= 17 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=SPH to cut staff by up to 10%; My Paper, TNP to be merged|url= http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/sph-cut-staff-10-my-paper-tnp-be-merged/|access-date=28 October 2016|publisher= [[Today (Singapore newspaper)]]|date= 17 October 2016}}</ref> and that [[My Paper]] and The New Paper (TNP) would be merged to form a revamped TNP that will be a freesheet on 1 December 2016.<ref>{{cite news | last1= Chew | first1= Hui Min | title=My Paper and The New Paper to merge; SPH to cut staff by up to 10 per cent over 2 years through series of measures|url= http://www.straitstimes.com/business/my-paper-and-the-new-paper-to-merge-sph-to-cut-staff-by-up-to-10-per-cent-over-2-years/|access-date=28 October 2016|publisher= [[The Straits Times]]|date= 17 October 2016}}</ref><ref name="TNP" /> Distributed free of charge, this version of ''The New Paper'' aimed to reach a circulation of 300,000, matching [[Today (Singapore newspaper)|Today]], the other English-language free newspaper in Singapore.

On 10 December 2021, ''The New Paper'' ceased its print edition and went fully digital.<ref name=digital>{{Cite web|last=Lim|first=Han Ming|date=2021-09-20|title=The New Paper goes fully digital from Dec 10|url=https://tnp.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/new-paper-goes-fully-digital-dec-10|access-date=2021-09-20|website=The New Paper|language=en}}</ref>

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