Sing Tao Daily (Canada)

Sing Tao Media Group (Canada) (Template:Langx), or Sing Tao (Template:Zh) for short, is a Chinese language media group based in Toronto, Ontario.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It offers digital and social media marketing, radio broadcasting, magazine publishing, events management and e-commerce to Chinese Canadians, the second largest ethnic group in Canada.

The media brand began in Canada in 1978 as a Hong Kong-owned Chinese language newspaper. Today, it is the largest Chinese media group in Canada, reaching a community of 1.7 million nationwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Since 2023, it is jointly owned by a private Canadian corporation and the Hong Kong–based Sing Tao News Corporation. Previously, between 1998 and 2023, it was jointly owned by Torstar Corporation and Sing Tao News Corporation.

The company underwent a rebranding in Fall 2023, changing its operating name from Sing Tao Daily (Canada) to STMG to reflect how the company has been adapting to the changing media landscape, evolving from one daily newspaper to a diverse platform comprising digital, social, radio, print, experiential marketing, e-commerce and more.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The current CEO of the company is Anson Wong, who succeeded the retiring Calvin Wong in April 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Sing TaoTemplate:'s was connected to the Toronto Star through Andrew V. Go, former Star vice president for business ventures.<ref name="felisa">Template:Cite news</ref> Go's father, Go Puan Seng, was the publisher of The Fookien Times, then the Philippines' largest Chinese-language newspaper which also published the Philippine edition of the Sing Tao,<ref name="blaker">Template:Cite journal</ref> and was a family friend of then Sing Tao Group's Sally Aw.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

According to former editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Victor Ho, and Jonathan Manthorpe, author of Claws of the Panda, the newspaper's editorial stance is pro-Beijing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Reception

In 2009, the top editor of Toronto's Sing Tao Daily, Wilson Chan, was fired shortly after it was revealed that he drastically modified an original Toronto Star article on Tibet to remove criticisms of the Chinese government, before publishing the story in Sing Tao. The decision to remove Chan is said to have come from Torstar Corp, who owns a majority share in Sing TaoTemplate:'s Canadian edition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The original story, "Chinese Canadians Conflicted on Tibet",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> which ran on April 13, 2008, was written by a reporter for the Toronto Star, an English-language newspaper also owned by Torstar Corporation. The relationship gives Sing Tao rights to translate and publish stories from the Star. Chan's edits to the Chinese language story, which were revealed by media outlets in 2009, included changing the headline to, "The West Attacks China With Tibet Issue, Inciting Chinese Patriotism Overseas". The edited version omitted all quotes critical of the Chinese regime's human rights abuses and added comments blaming the West for "suppressing China" with media reports of the crackdown in Tibet.

See also

• List of newspapers in Canada
• Sing Tao News Corporation
• Chinese Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area

External links

• Official website - Sing Tao Media Group Canada Template:In lang