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Taiwan
Convergence Media Group (匯流傳媒集團), also known as CMG, is a Taipei-based digital media and data analytics group founded in 2016 by Wu Shih-chang (吳世昌), who serves as chair. Its core outlet is CNEWS (匯流新聞網), a digital news portal covering politics, technology, healthcare, finance, and cross-strait affairs. According to the group's corporate profile, CMG integrates news production, public opinion polling, big data analytics, video production, and integrated marketing under a single structure, describing itself as one of the few Taiwan-based digital media groups to combine t…
Taiwan
The Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News (台灣新生報), or TSSD News, is a Taipei-based daily newspaper founded on October 25, 1945, making it, by its own account, the oldest continuously published newspaper in Taiwan. According to the paper's own history, it was established as the successor to the Japanese colonial-era Taiwan Shinpō (台灣新報), whose assets were received on behalf of the Taiwan Provincial Administrative Executive Office (台灣省行政長官公署), the ROC governing body that administered Taiw…
Taiwan
National Broadcasting Company (全國廣播公司), also known as M Radio, is a privately operated FM radio station incorporated on June 1, 1994, and first broadcast on December 23, 1994, broadcasting on FM 106.1 from its headquarters in Taichung's West District. The station claims it was the first medium-power commercial FM station to begin broadcasting after Taiwan's
China, Taiwan
The Chinese Press Institute (中國新聞學會), or CPI, a Taipei-based journalism association founded in 1941 and re-established in Taiwan in 1965, conducted an eight-day visit to Shenzhen and Beijing from September 18–25, 2024, under arrangements made by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, the Chinese Communist Party-led press body that plays a central role in managing and controlling journalism and media in China. Led by CPI chair Chou Cheng-hu (周成虎), the delegation included senior execut…
China, Taiwan
The Taiwan China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會) and the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, co-organized the 30th Cross-Strait University Students Journalism Camp, held August 19-29, 2024, across Inner Mongolia and Beijing. Approximately 200 students from 18 universities on both sides of the strait participated, the largest cohort since the camp began in 2004. An official Chinese Communist Party-led press group that plays a key part in controls on journalism and media, the ACJA arranged visits to the official media conglom…
Taiwan
Gala Television (八大電視公司), also known as GTV, is a nationwide cable television network in Taiwan established on June 13, 1997, and headquartered at 455 Ruiguang Road, Neihu District, Taipei. According to the company's about page, it launched initially as GTV International Communications Co., Ltd. (八大國際傳播股份有限公司), operating two channels, GTV27 (GTV One) and GTV28 (GTV Variety). It was renamed Gala Television Co., Ltd. in 2001 and established a dedicated drama channel, GTV Drama (八大戲劇台), in 2000 and an entertainment channel in 2006. The company underwent a series of ownership changes: it was acquired by MBK Partners in 2008, sold to EQ…
Taiwan
The Penghu Times (澎湖時報) is a daily newspaper based in Magong City (馬公市), the administrative seat of Penghu County (澎湖縣), an archipelago of some 90 islands located approximately 50 kilometers west of Taiwan's main island and regarded as strategically significant to the defense of the Taiwan Strait. According to the outlet's own history, it was founded on January 1, 1997, by a group of local Penghu residents to fill the gap left by the…
Taiwan
Formosa Plastics Group (台塑企業), also known as FPG, is a Taiwan-based industrial conglomerate founded in 1954 by brothers Wang Yung-ching (王永慶) and Wang Yung-tsai (王永在) in Kaohsiung. According to the group's corporate introduction, it began as the world's smallest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) factory, with a daily production capacity of four tons, and expanded over seven decades into a conglomerate of more than 100 companies. Core subsidiaries include Formosa Plastics Corp. (台灣塑膠公司), Nan Ya Plastics Corp. (南亞塑膠公司), Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp. (台灣化學纖維公司), Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (台塑石化公…
Taiwan
Eastern Group (東森集團) is a Taipei-based conglomerate founded in 1975 as Far Eastern Silo Co., Ltd., initially operating grain storage and port facilities at the ports of Kaohsiung and Taichung. The group entered the media industry in 1991 by establishing what became Eastern Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and has since expanded into e-commerce, digital media, beauty and wellness, insurance, and logistics. Its principal subsidiaries include Eastern Media International Corporation, the home shopping channel ETMall, and the digital news platform
Taiwan
United Daily News (聯合報) is a Taipei-based daily broadsheet newspaper founded on September 16, 1951, by Wang Ti-wu (王惕吾) as a merger of three papers: the Popular Daily (全民日報), the National Daily (民族報), and the Economic Times (經濟時報). It is the flagship publication of the United Daily News Group (聯合報系), whose other publications include the Economic Daily News (經濟日報), founded on April 20, 1967, and the World Journal (世界日報), founded in 1976 and described by the group as the largest Chinese-language newspaper in North Amer…
Taiwan
Meihua Media Group (梅花媒體集團) is a Taipei-based digital media group incorporated in October 2023 as Meihua Media Cultural Enterprises Co., Ltd. (梅花媒體文化事業股份有限公司). The group was founded by Wujue Miaotian (悟覺妙天), a Chan Buddhist master who self-describes as the 85th Chan Patriarch since Shakyamuni Buddha and who has a longstanding record of involvement in pan-Blue politics in Taiwan, who serves as chair, and Wang Cho-chung (王綽中), former president of the China Times (中國時報), who served as president as of February 20…
Taiwan
ETtoday (東森新聞雲) is a Taiwan-based digital news platform founded on November 1, 2011, by the Eastern Group (東森集團), a Taipei-based conglomerate with origins in grain storage that entered the media industry in 1991 by establishing what became Eastern Broadcasting Co., Ltd. According to the Eastern Group's published corporate history, ETtoday was established as a news website in 2011, renamed ETtoday.net in 2013, and formally incorporated as ETtoday Co., Ltd. in 2019. It is operated by Eastern New Media Holdings Co., Ltd. (東森新媒體控股股份有限公司) and is headquartered in Taipei. According to the company's
Taiwan
Taiwan Radio (台灣廣播公司), also known as TBC, is a privately operated radio network headquartered at Section 2, Renai Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei. According to the company's about page, it was formally established on May 29, 1973, by consolidating four predecessor stations and four relay transmitters into a single network. The company traces its origins to the Chung Hsing Broadcasting Station (中興廣播電台), founded on November 12, 1956, in Nantou County by Ma Chi-hsien (馬繼先). The three other constituent stations were the People's Voice Broadcasting Company (民聲廣播公司), established Ma…
Hong Kong
The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (香港報業公會) is a newspaper industry association established on May 10, 1954, originally founded by four of Hong Kong’s largest newspapers at the time: Kung Sheung Daily News (工商日報), Wah Kiu Yat Po (華僑日報), Sing Tao Daily (星島日報), and the English-language South China Morning Post. It serves as the largest newspaper industry body in Hong Kong, with current membership comprising 14 major newspapers, but has increasingly represented pro-government and pro-Beijing positions. The society organize…
China, Taiwan
The Taiwan China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會) is described by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, the party-led body that serves as the leading instrument of CCP press and journalism control in China, as an association of Taiwan mass media practitioners, originally founded in Chongqing in March 1941 and, according to the ACJA, "revived in Taiwan in 1965." The ACJA …
Kazakhstan
Khabar Agency (哈巴爾通訊社) is a state-owned media corporation in Kazakhstan, established on October 23, 1995, as the National Television News Agency — “Khabar” meaning “news” in Kazakh. It is wholly owned by Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Culture and Information and operates as one of the country’s largest broadcasters, delivering programming in Kazakh, Russian, and English. The agency operates the flagship socio-political channel Khabar and the 24-hour news channel 24KZ. According to the State Media Monitor, Khabar Agency carries out the informational directives of the Kazakh government, and no …
Kazakhstan
The Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan (哈薩克斯坦共和國文化與資訊部) is a central executive body of the Government of Kazakhstan responsible for state policy in the areas of culture, information, interethnic and interfaith harmony, religious affairs, youth and family policy, and what it describes as “modernization of public consciousness.” The ministry reached its current form on September 1, 2023, when Presid…
Hong Kong
The Hong Kong News Executives' Association (新聞行政人員協會) is a professional association established in 1986, dedicated according to its own description to safeguarding press freedom, enhancing cooperation among members, and maintaining professional standards. Membership comprises senior editorial staff — including chief editors, deputy chief editors, and news editors — from Hong Kong's major media organizations, and numbered more than 100 at the time of the association's most recent public membership statement. The association describes its activities as promoting journalism exchanges across "the two shore…
Hong Kong
On April 18, 2026, the Hong Kong News Executives' Association (新聞行政人員協會) held its 40th anniversary dinner in Hong Kong, attended by more than 400 guests including representatives from Taiwan's China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會), whom the NEA singled out by name in its account of the event in an effort to foreground PRC-framed cross-strait ties. Far from being a recognized press-related organization in Taiwan, the China Journalism Society is profiled on the…
Hong Kong, Kazakhstan
On June 2, 2026, the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (香港報業公會) and the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新職行政人員協會) signed a memorandum of understanding with Khabar Agency (哈巴爾通訊社), Kazakhstan’s state-owned broadcaster, in Astana. The signing took place during a visit to Kazakhstan by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu (李家超), who led a high-level delegation that for the first time included representatives of Hong Kong’s press industry. Under the agreement, the parties committed to jointly promoting what they described as “accurate narratives” about their …
