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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Publisher | Liberty Times Group |
Founded | April 17, 1980 |
Political alignment | Pan-Green |
Language | Chinese |
Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan |
Circulation | 2,810,000 |
Website | ltn.com.tw libertytimes.com.tw |
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Traditional Chinese | 自由時報 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 自由时报 | ||||||||||
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The Liberty Times is a national newspaper published in Taiwan. Founded by Lin Rong-San,it is published by the Liberty Times Group. The newspaper was first published on 17 April 1980,as Liberty Daily,before adopting its current name in 1987. In 1999,they launched their English language version,the Taipei Times .
It is one of the four most influential newspapers in Taiwan,the other three being the Apple Daily ,the China Times ,and the United Daily News . [1] While the United Daily News is regarded as taking an editorial line that supports a Pan-Blue political stance,the Liberty Times is thought to take a Pan-Green pro-independence political stance. [2]
Year | Awarded by | Category | Award type | Title | Journalists | References |
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2010 | The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) | Excellence in Reporting on the Environment | Award for Excellence | 煙囪裡的秘密—台灣六輕麥寮高罹癌率大追蹤 | 劉力仁、林國賢、謝文華、王昶閔 | [3] [4] |
2010 | Taipei Journalists Association's Social Bright Side Reporting Awards (SBSRA) | Printed Newspapers (平面新聞報紙類獎項) | Award | 菜販捐圖書館、續攢千萬助貧 | 黃明堂 | [5] [6] |
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