The following is a list of newspapers in Singapore.
As of 2021, there are a total of 16 newspapers in active circulation of which three are distributed for free. Some of these also carry supplementary tabloid pull-outs sold together with the main spreadsheet, such as Digital Life, Mind Your Body, and Urban, which are distributed together with The Straits Times.
Newspaper | Language | Format | Founded | Average daily circulation (2013)[1] | Average daily circulation (2016)[2] |
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Berita Harian | Malay | general daily broadsheet | 1 July 1957 | 50,600 | 39,300 |
zbCOMMA (早报逗号) | Chinese | weekly tabloid | 1 January 1994 | 54,400 | 40,400 |
Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报) | Chinese | general daily broadsheet | 6 September 1923Nanyang Siang Pau) 15 January 1929 (as Sin Chew Jit Poh) |
(as 172,500 (print + digital) | 188,600 (print + digital) |
Good Paper | English | "Social Causes" online,[3] free quarterly print and e-copy tabloid | 21 January 2011 | 15,000 (print) | |
Shin Min Daily News (新明日报) | Chinese | general daily broadsheet | 18 March 1967 | 130,600 | 100,300 (print + digital) |
Tamil Murasu (தமிழ் முரசு) | Tamil | general daily broadsheet | 1 January 1932 | 15,700 | 11,300 |
tabla! | English | general free weekly tabloid | 10 October 2008 | 30,000 | |
The Business Times | English | financial daily broadsheet | 1 October 1976 | 42,200 (print + digital) | 36,900 (print + digital) |
The New Paper | English | free general daily tabloid | 26 July 1988 | 85,600 | 113,300 |
The Straits Times | English | general daily broadsheet | 15 July 1845 | (as The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce)995,991 (print + digital) | 995,991 (print + digital) |
Thumbs Up (大拇指) | Chinese | general weekly tabloid | 15 January 2000 | 27,500 | 21,200 |
Today | English | free daily compact newspaper | 10 November 2000 | 300,000 on daily | |
WEEKENDER[4] | English | lifestyle free home delivered weekly broadsheet | 1 October 2012 | 230,000 weekly | |
TGIF Papers | English | general free weekly tabloid | 1 January 2013 | 50,000 (200,000 monthly) | |
Pravasi Express[5] | English and Malayalam | general fortnightly tabloid | 15 July 2012 | 7000 (200,000 online) | |
The Life News[6] | English | National Fortnightly (digital) and a facsimile of Parent edition The Life News, Australia National Edition and The Life News Ltd UK. tabloid | (20,000 online) |
The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam,[7] closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power.[8]
In 1971, the government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies saw the closing of The Eastern Sun and The Singapore Herald.[9] Editorial executives of Nanyang Siang Pau, which was accused of propagating Chinese ethnic chauvinism, had been ordered detained without trial for a period of at least two years, and publication of the Chinese daily was briefly halted.[10][11]