The New Times Corporation is one of Ghana’s two state-owned newspaper publishers. It publishes the daily Ghanaian Times and the weekly The Spectator. It began as the Guinea Press, established by President Kwame Nkrumah in 1957 as the printing house for his Convention People’s Party. After Nkrumah’s overthrow in a 1966 military coup, the press was taken over as state property by decree in 1968, and in 1971 it was reconstituted under its current name. The corporation is wholly state-owned and overseen by Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority, but it funds itself mainly through advertising rather than routine state subsidies. Ghana’s minister of public enterprises has urged the corporation’s management to bring its financial reporting in line with public finance law. The Chinese embassy in Accra has used the corporation’s flagship daily to publish ambassadors’ signed articles, including a 2019 piece by Ambassador Wang Shiting (王世廷) defending Beijing’s position on the Hong Kong protests.