New Straits Times

Not to be confused with The Straits Times, a Singaporean newspaper and former sister publication.

New Straits Times
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Media Prima
PublisherThe New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
Founded15 July 1845; 179 years ago (1845-07-15) (as The Straits Times)
(65497 issues)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersBalai Berita 31, Jalan Riong, 59100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Circulation30,929 (daily)
85,469 (daily E-paper)
(July–December 2018)[1][2]
OCLC number1167649590
Websitenst.com.my

The New Straits Times is an English-language newspaper published in Malaysia. It is Malaysia's oldest newspaper still in print (though not the first),[3] having been founded as a local offshoot of Singapore-based The Straits Times on 15 July 1845. It was renamed as the New Straits Times on 13 August 1974.

The paper served as Malaysia's only broadsheet format English-language newspaper; however, following the example of British newspapers The Times and The Independent, a tabloid version first rolled off the presses on 1 September 2004 and since 18 April 2005, the newspaper has been published only in tabloid size, ending a 160-year-old tradition of broadsheet publication. The New Straits Times currently retails at RM1.50 (~37 US cents) in Peninsular Malaysia.

As of 2 January 2019, the group editor of the newspaper is Rashid Yusof. In 2020, the paper was listed as the 5th most trusted in a Reuters Institute survey of 14 Malaysian media outlets.[4] The New Straits Times is considered a newspaper of record for Malaysia.[5]

  1. ^ "ABC Circulation Figures – July to December 2018 (Print Newspapers)" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations, Malaysia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 October 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ^ "ABC Circulation Figures – July to December 2018 (Digital Replica Newspapers)" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations, Malaysia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 August 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  3. ^ Malaysia's first newspaper, the long-defunct The Prince of Wales Island Gazette, made its début in Penang in 1805. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 November 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 (page 99) (PDF). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 May 2021.
  5. ^ Christopher, H. Sterling (2009). "A–C". Encyclopedia of Journalism. Vol. 1. SAGE Publishing. p. 108. ISBN 978-0761929574.