23 Facts About SCMP Group

SCMP Group was owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation from 1986 until it was acquired by Malaysian real estate tycoon Robert Kuok in 1993.

The SCMP Group has been described as a newspaper founded to support the reform movement in the late-Qing Empire.

Editors of the SCMP Group attended regular meetings at the Government House for disclosures that aimed to influence public opinion and received business briefings from the HSBC.

SCMP Group presided over the controversial dismissal of several journalists over an internal prank, and himself resigned with effect 1 April 2007.

In May 2015, the SCMP Group told columnists Philip Bowring, Steve Vines, Kevin Rafferty and Frank Ching – all of whom have criticised the government in commentaries to varying degrees on different subjects over the years – that their services would no longer be needed.

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Alibaba's ownership of SCMP Group led to concerns that the newspaper would become a mouthpiece of the Central People's Government.

In 2016, following the Alibaba acquisition, the SCMP Group removed its paywall, but in July 2020, SCMP Group announced that it would return to a subscription model in August 2020.

Since the Alibaba acquisition, the SCMP Group has discontinued several subsidiary publications, including its Chinese-language edition, the 48 HOURS weekend magazine, and the popular HK Magazine alternative weekly.

SCMP Group is owned by Alibaba, perhaps the biggest pro-China organization in the world, if you don't count the Communist Party.

SCMP Group reported net profit of HK$338 million for the year 2006, the operating profit of HK$419m was attributable mainly to the newspaper operation.

On 26 March 2007, the SCMP Group was given a facelift, with new presentation and fonts.

At present, SCMP Group provides free subscription to "The South China Morning Post iPad edition" for the Apple iPad.

SCMP Group provided a "China-focused" Chinese-language version of The Post, nanzao.

SCMP Group's firing was defended as "cost cutting", but was widely viewed as political self-censorship in the face of the imminent handover of Hong Kong to the PRC.

The SCMP Group published a two-paragraph report inside the paper; other news media reported it prominently.

The SCMP Group published an interview with Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba and a member of the CCP, in which Ma defended late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's decision to crack down on pro-democracy student protests, saying it was "the most correct decision".

Questions were raised about the relationship between the publication and Chinese authorities after the SCMP Group was able to secure an interview with Zhao Wei, the legal assistant of human rights defender Li Heping, who was in the custody of Chinese police.

The SCMP Group was able to make contact with Zhao Wei a few days after her release from prison while she was still in the custody of Chinese security forces and at a time when neither her husband nor lawyer were able to reach her.

SCMP Group won 3 awards at the 2018 WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Event.

In 2020, SCMP Group won another Sigma Delta Chi award in the same category for their coverage of COVID-19.

SCMP Group was announced as the winner of the Online News Association's 2020 General Excellence in Online Journalism award for large newsrooms.

SCMP Group's piece titled "Hong Kong Protests: 100 days of protests rock Hong Kong" was an honoree at the 2020 Webby Awards for Best Individual Editorial Feature.

Now, the current publisher for the SCMP is South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, which currently publishes, along with the South China Morning Post and Sunday Morning Post, the following newspapers, magazines and online platforms:.