The Canadian edition of Sing Tao Daily, which the United States has listed as a “foreign agent” for Beijing, terminated its print product on Aug. 28.
On Aug. 27, the Chinese-language newspaper released its final print edition, concluding with a special review of the major events it covered over the past 44 years of publication.
The publication said last month that the termination of its print edition was a business strategy to better “concentrate resources on the development of new media platforms,” in response to consumers’ behavioural shift to receiving news from digital platforms.
But some experts also pointed to the increased influence from Beijing in the publication, and its gradual development into a pro-CCP (Chinese Communist Party) media, saying these factors contributed to its loss of market share….