SPH Media

SPH Media Trust
Company typeCompany limited by guarantee (SMT)[1]
IndustryMass media
Founded1 December 2021; 2 years ago (2021-12-01)
HeadquartersToa Payoh, Singapore
Key people
Khaw Boon Wan (Chairman)
Teo Lay Lim (CEO)
Number of employees
2,500
Websitewww.sph.com.sg

SPH Media Trust (SMT), trading as SPH Media, is a mass media company in Singapore. It was incorporated on July 19, 2021, as a company limited by guarantee, it was a spin off from Singapore Press Holdings as part of a restructuring. It owns several major newspapers in the country, including the English-language The Straits Times and The Business Times, Chinese-language Lianhe Zaobao and Shin Min Daily News, Malay-language Berita Harian, and the Tamil Murasu. The company also publishes magazines and operates five radio stations.

It forms part of a duopoly of the mass media in the country, alongside the state-owned enterprise Mediacorp.[2] SPH Media has over 2,500 employees, including a team of approximately 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating around the world.

  1. ^ "SPH MEDIA TRUST (202125108M) - Singapore Business Directory". SGPBusiness.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Singapore profile - Media". BBC News. BBC News. 17 February 2020. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2021.