Krungthep Turakij

Krungthep Turakij
Cover of Krungthep Turakij 9 May 2020 edition
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet and Digital
Owner(s)Krungthep Turakij Co., Ltd.
PublisherNation Group
Managing editorWeerasak Pongaksorn
FoundedOctober 6, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-10-06)
LanguageThai
HeadquartersInterlink Tower [th], 1858 Debaratna Road, Bang Na district, Bangkok
CountryThailand
Sister newspapersKom Chad Luek (online-only)
Post Today (online-only; since 2022)[1]
Thansettakij [th] (Since 2022)[2]
The Nation (online-only)
Websitebangkokbiznews.com

Krungthep Turakij (Thai: กรุงเทพธุรกิจ, lit. 'Bangkok business', RTGS: Krungthep Thurakit) is a Thai-language daily newspaper published by Nation Group. It was established on 6 October 1987,[3] and was originally positioned as a business newspaper, competing in the category with Manager Daily, among others. Its scope eventually expanded to more general topics, and it in effect came to compete with quality-oriented general-interest dailies such as Matichon. It operated as a sister paper to the English-language The Nation, with which it originally shared management and advertising sections. During the 1990s, when Thailand saw a vibrant and competitive newspaper industry, Krungthep Turakij was among the few that were consistently profitable, with a daily circulation of 70,000, and one of the two business dailies (the other being Manager) that survived the 1997 financial crisis.[4]

With the cessation of The Nation's print issue in 2019 and its mass-market-oriented sister paper Kom Chad Luek's in 2020, Krungthep Turakij remains the Nation Group's only newspaper still in print (alongside Thansettakij  [th],[5] which the group had acquired in 2022). It operates a corresponding news website at the domain bangkokbiznews.com.[3]

  1. ^ "เนชั่น ปิดดีลซื้อ "โพสต์ทูเดย์ – นิวส์เคลียร์" กว่ามูลค่า 59 ล้านบาท". Post Today (in Thai). 26 September 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  2. ^ "เนชั่น ทุ่ม 240 ล้าน ซื้อ "ฐานเศรษฐกิจ" เสริมแกร่งธุรกิจสื่อ". Kom Chad Luek (in Thai). 23 November 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b "สินค้าและบริการ". Nation Group (in Thai). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
    "สายธุรกิจด้านข่าวธุรกิจภาษาไทย". Nation Group (in Thai). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  4. ^ McCargo, Duncan (2012). Politics and the Press in Thailand: Media Machinations. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-56857-4.
  5. ^ "เนชั่น ทุ่ม 240 ล้าน ซื้อ "ฐานเศรษฐกิจ" เสริมแกร่งธุรกิจสื่อ". Kom Chad Luek (in Thai). 23 November 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2024.