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{{Short description|Chinese language broadsheet newspaper published in North America}}
{{hatnote|Not to be confused with the "World Journal" series of academic journals published by the [[Baishideng Publishing Group]].}}
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'''''World Journal''''' ({{lang-zh|c=[[:zh:北美世界日報|世界日報]]|p=Shìjiè Rìbào}}) is a Taiwanese [[broadsheet]] newspaper published in [[North America]]. It is the largest [[Chinese language]] newspaper in the [[United States]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-27/one-percenters-drop-six-figures-at-long-island-mall.html|title=One Percenters Drop Six Figures at Long Island Mall|author=Carol Hymowitz|publisher= Bloomberg L.P|date=2014-10-27|access-date=2014-10-27}}</ref> and one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers outside of [[Greater China]], with a daily circulation of 350,000. The newspaper is headquartered in the [[Whitestone, Queens|Whitestone]] neighborhood of [[Queens]] in [[New York City]].<ref>"[https://www.worldjournal.com/page/topic/17829 Contact Us (Page in Chinese)] World Journal. Retrieved on November 19, 2011. "New York Headquarters 141-07 20th Ave. College Point, NY 11357"</ref>

''World Journal'' is published in major cities in the United States with large [[overseas Chinese]] populations, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as cities in Canada, including Vancouver and Toronto.<ref name="cmmd">{{Cite web |title=The World Journal; 世界日報 |url=https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/MinorityMedia/items/show/623 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250510185339/https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/MinorityMedia/items/show/623 |archive-date=2025-05-10 |access-date=2025-05-10 |url-status=live |website=Canadian Minority Media Database |publisher=University of Alberta}}</ref> The publication is widely sold in many [[Chinatown]]s and major suburbs.

==History==
The newspaper was established on February 12, 1976 in New York and San Francisco.<ref name="worldjournalbrief">{{cite web |title=世界日報簡介 |url=http://www.worldjournal.net/%e4%b8%96%e7%95%8c%e6%97%a5%e5%a0%b1%e7%b0%a1%e4%bb%8b/ |website=世界日報 }}</ref> The ''World Journal'' is one of three major Chinese-language dailies among the [[Chinese Americans|Chinese American community]]. The publication is owned by the same [[media conglomerate]] that runs the ''[[United Daily News]]'' in [[Taiwan]] and carries a significant Taiwanese American administrative presence.<ref name="cmmd" /> Until the mid-1990s, it was viewed as hostile to the [[People's Republic of China]], in part because the paper referred to people from [[mainland China]] as "Communist Chinese". Furthermore, its coverage on mainland China usually comprised only one article or so each day out of dozens of pages and sections.<ref>{{cite news |title=One China? Maybe, But 3 Newspapers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/nyregion/one-china-maybe-but-3-newspapers.html |work=The New York Times|date=19 January 1997 |last1=Lii |first1=Jane H. }}</ref>

However, the newspaper has changed since it began increasing its coverage of mainland China.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last1=Diamond |first1=Larry |url=https://www.hoover.org/research/chinas-influence-american-interests-promoting-constructive-vigilance |title=China's Influence and American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance |last2=Schell |first2=Orville |date=2019-08-01 |publisher=Hoover Press |isbn=978-0-8179-2286-3 |pages=108, 109 |language=en |oclc=1104533323 |author-link=Larry Diamond |author-link2=Orville Schell |access-date=September 4, 2022 }}</ref> Following the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre]], such coverage increased to two pages per day. While the paper still attempts to maintain an anti-communist stance,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Min Zhou|author-link=Min Zhou|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghKia5k6hXUC&q=%22world+journal%22+communist|title=Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation|date=2009-04-07|publisher=[[Temple University Press]]|isbn=978-1-59213-859-3|language=en}}</ref> it has become increasingly sensitive to the tastes of its large [[Chinese emigration|Chinese immigrant]] readership which has grown since the 1990s with the expanded access to [[permanent residence (United States)|permanent resident green cards]] in the United States following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Another reason for the shift was rooted in the newspaper's sympathy for the [[Democracy movements of China|Chinese democracy movement]].

Like its parent, the ''United Daily News'', the ''World Journal'' is widely seen as taking an [[op-ed|editorial]] line that favors the [[Pan-Blue coalition]] and the [[Kuomintang]].<ref name="cmmd" /> Consequently, this editorial position has made it much less hostile toward the People's Republic since the 1990s. Immediately after the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]], the newspaper no longer referred indiscriminately to all mainland Chinese as "Communist Chinese", and additionally praised pro-democracy efforts on the mainland. During the mid-1990s, it began to give credit to the positive progress made in mainland China, and by the late-1990s, it began to criticize wrongdoings within the Chinese democracy movement and in the West in the same manner with which it criticizes corruption within the Chinese communist regime.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}} After 2000, there has also been an increase in the representation of mainland Chinese immigrants on the newspaper's reporting staff, and the paper has published readers' letters voicing different views from the pro-Taiwan independence stance that have also made it popular among mainland Chinese immigrants to the United States.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:WorldJournalHoustonTXoffices.JPG|thumb|The offices in [[Chinatown, Houston]] ([[Greater Sharpstown]])]]
''World Journal'' ceased publication in Canada on January 1, 2016, to better focus its business in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.today/20151223022422/http://www.worldjournal.com/3605507/article-%E6%BA%AB%E5%93%A5%E8%8F%AF%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E6%97%A5%E5%A0%B1-%E6%98%8E%E5%B9%B4%E5%85%83%E6%97%A6%E8%B5%B7%E5%81%9C%E5%88%8A/?ref=%E6%BA%AB%E5%93%A5%E8%8F%AF|title=溫哥華世界日報 明年元旦起停刊 - 世界新聞網|work=世界新聞網|date=2015-12-22}}</ref>

==Controversies==

===Alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party===
According to a 2001 report by the [[Jamestown Foundation]], ''World Journal'' was one of the four major Chinese newspapers found in the U.S. that "has recently begun bowing to pressure from the Beijing government." The other three which were ''[[Sing Tao Daily]]'', ''[[Ming Pao Daily News]]'', and ''[[The China Press]]'' had already been "either directly or indirectly controlled by the government of Mainland China". The report referenced an instance of [[self-censorship]] by ''World Journal'' in its efforts to develop business ties with the People's Republic of China in which Chinese consulates in both New York and San Francisco have pressured the paper{{'}}s local offices not to publish ads related to [[Falun Gong]]. The New York office reportedly acquiesced in full and did not publish the ads, while the San Francisco office acquiesced in part by burying the ads among the paper's least viewed pages.<ref>Duzhe, Mei. China Brief Vol1, Issue 10. [http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=28481&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=191&no_cache=1#.VqafxxgrKvM "How China's Government is Attempting to Control Chinese Media in America"] "Jamestown Foundation." 2001</ref>  Conversely, Jason Q. Ng of [[China Digital Times]] and [[Citizen Lab]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jason Q. Ng|url=https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/jason-q-ng|access-date=December 6, 2020|website=Center for the Humanities|language=en-US|publication-place=[[City University of New York]]|archive-date=March 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303112735/https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/jason-q-ng|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Articles by Jason Q. Ng|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/author/jason-q-ng/|access-date=December 6, 2020|website=[[MIT Technology Review]]|archive-date=December 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202162231/https://www.technologyreview.com/author/jason-q-ng/|url-status=live}}</ref> considered ''World Journal'' in 2013 to be relatively critical of PRC policies.<ref name="Ng2013">{{cite book|first=Jason Q.|last=Ng|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqjAjRN_F8QC&q=duowei&pg=PA134|title=Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China s Version of Twitter (And Why)|date=August 6, 2013|publisher=[[The New Press]]|isbn=978-1-59558-885-2|pages=134–|access-date=July 6, 2021|archive-date=August 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814085738/https://books.google.com/books?id=qqjAjRN_F8QC&q=duowei&pg=PA134|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Labor law violation===
On January 10, 2007, a Southern California jury found the [[Monterey Park, California|Monterey Park]]-based ''Chinese Daily News'' responsible for failing to give employees breaks, lunches, and overtime, and awarded the plaintiffs $2.5 million. The plaintiffs alleged that they worked over twelve hours per day, were not provided accurate pay statements, and were unfairly interfered with during unionization attempts. In 2001, the employees voted to join the [[Communication Workers of America]], but the [[National Labor Relations Board]] vacated the union vote after finding that the election was tainted. The ''Chinese Daily News'' appealed the ruling in the district court, with proceedings held in the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] and the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]].

In 2011, after the U.S. Supreme Court decided ''[[Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes|Dukes v. Wal-Mart]]'', the U.S. Supreme Court remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit for reconsideration in light of Dukes.  On September 13, 2013, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the district court's grant of [[Class action|class certification]] under [[Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]] (FRCP) Rule 23(b)(3).  Upon remand at the [[United States district court|district court]] level, Plaintiffs once again moved for class certification, and the district court recertified the class.

''Chinese Daily News'' thereafter filed a FRCP Rule 23(f) Petition to Appeal, which the Ninth Circuit granted on August 22, 2014. In 2016, the ''Chinese Daily News'' agreed to pay $7.8 million to former and current employees in a settlement.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Li |first=Shan |date=March 18, 2016 |title=Chinese Daily News agrees to pay $7.8 million to settle labor dispute |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newspaper-wage-settlement-20160318-story.html#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20country's%20biggest,allegations%20of%20multiple%20labor%20violations. |access-date=November 1, 2025 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> The Los Angeles area-based ''Chinese Daily News'' was later amalgamated into the New York City-headquartered ''World Journal''.<ref>Law 360, San Diego (March 05, 2013, 10:55 PM ET)</ref><ref>ninth circuit court of appeal No. 08-55483 D.C. No.2:04-cv-01498-CBM-JWJ</ref>

===Discrimination against breastfeeding women===
On October 21, 2013, ''World Journal'' published a controversial article that allegedly discriminated against breastfeeding women. Titled "Breastfeeding photos embarrass Chinese-American to death", the article cited anonymous resources, labeled breastfeeding photos as "R-rated-photos", and described those photos as "disturbing" and "disgusting." The article received strong reaction among [[Chinese American]] Community and the Taiwanese Breastfeeding Association launched a protest against ''World Journal''. Media Watch criticized that the report was "misleading" and "biased."<ref>[http://www.mediawatch.com/?p=1333 Political Exposure: the Breasts]</ref>

It was also reported that ''World Journal'' allegedly failed to accommodate employees' legal nursing needs. Taiwanese American journalist and author [[To-wen Tseng]] blogged about her experience of being forced to pump her breast milk in a bathroom stall, and was harassed by colleagues for attempting to wash pumping accessories in the office kitchen.<ref>[http://breastfeedingtowen.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-quit-my-job-because-id-rather-be.html "I'd rather be breastfeeding"], blog post, Nov 2013</ref> In November 2013, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center submitted a lawyer's letter to ''World Journal'', requesting a policy change and supervisor training regarding nursing employees' legal rights.

The ''World Journal'' disputed the employee's claims, but agreed to settle the case. On August 25, 2014, ''World Journal'' made a policy change as requested and paid for the damage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.las-elc.org/news/las-elc-settles-breastfeeding-discrimination-claim-against-world-journal|title=LAS-ELC Settles Breastfeeding Discrimination Claim against World Journal}}</ref><ref>settlement agreement between LAS-ELC and World Journal 08-25-2014.</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|New York City|Journalism}}
*''[[The China Press]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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*{{Official website}}
*[http://www.wjboston.com ''World Journal'' - East Coast Boston/New England Branch]

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