List of newspapers in Malaysia

This is a list of newspapers published in Malaysia, sorted by language.

Published newspapers by language

Malaysian English

• New Straits Times – All around the Malaysia (all Malaysia)'s nationwide Malaysian English-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays, Malaysian Chinese and Tamil Malaysians community was officially first established and first published based in Singapore as The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce on 15 July 1845.
• The Borneo Post – English daily in Sarawak and Sabah
• Business Times
• Daily Express – English daily in Sabah
• The Edge
• New Sarawak Tribune – English daily in Sarawak, re-published in 2010
• The Star – All around the Malaysia (all Malaysia)'s largest and number one nationwide Malaysian English-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays, Malaysian Chinese and Tamil Malaysians community was officially first established and first published based in Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island) as The Star on 9 September 1971.
• The Sun – Malaysia's nationwide English-language tabloid newspaper

Malaysian Malay

• Berita Harian – All around the Malaysia (all Malaysia)'s nationwide Malaysian Malay-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays community was officially first published based in Singapore and first published as Berita Harian on 1 July 1957.
• Harakah – owned by Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)
• Harian Metro – All around the Malaysia (all Malaysia)'s largest and number one nationwide Malaysian Malay-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays teenager and youth or teen community was officially first published based in Klang Valley, Greater Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lumpur and first published as Harian Metro on 26 March 1991.
• Kosmo! – Malaysia's nationwide Malaysia-language tabloid newspaper
• Majoriti 7
• Sinar Harian – Malaysia's nationwide Malaysia-language tabloid community newspaper
• Utusan Borneo – Malay daily in Sarawak and Sabah, published by The Borneo Post
• Utusan Malaysia – Malaysia's nationwide Malaysia-language tabloid newspaper
• Utusan Sarawak – Malay daily in Sarawak

Malaysian Mandarin

• China Press (中國報) - Klang Valley, Greater Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lumpur's largest and number one nationwide Malaysian Mandarin-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Chinese community was officially first established and first published based in Klang Valley, Greater Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lumpur on 1 April 1946.
• Guang Ming Daily (光明日報) – Penang Island's largest and number one Penangite Chinese-language oldest daily newspaper for Penangite Chinese community was officially first established and first published based in Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island) as Sin Pin Jit Poh (星檳日報) on 15 January 1939.
• Nanyang Siang Pau (南洋商報) – Peninsular Malaysia and West Malaysia's largest and number one nationwide Malaysian Mandarin-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Chinese community was officially first established and first published based in Singapore as Nanyang Siang Pau (南洋商報) on 6 September 1923.
• Sin Chew Daily (星洲日報) – All around the Malaysia (all Malaysia)'s largest and number one nationwide Malaysian Mandarin-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Chinese community was officially first established and first published based in Singapore as Sin Chew Jit Poh (星洲日報) on 15 January 1929.

Online-only newspapers

• Agenda Daily
• Bernama
• The Malaysian Insider – ceased publications in March 2016
• Malaysiakini
• Free Malaysia Today
• Malaysian.News
• MalaysiaNow
• Malay Mail
• Scoop

Defunct newspapers

• New Sabah Times – English, Malay, and Kadazan-Dusun daily in Sabah, ceased publication on 31 December 2020
• Sarawak Tribune – suspended in 2006, but has since been relaunched as the New Sarawak Tribune in 2010.
• Shin Min Daily News – Malaysia's first Chinese-language tabloid newspaper; publication ceased in 1994
• Sunday Mail – replaced by the Weekend Mail
• Tamil Nesan (தமிழ் நேசன்) – ceased publication on 1 February 2019
• Weekend Mail – successor of the Sunday Mail, but was indefinitely suspended in 2006
• Utusan Melayu (Jawi script) – now a weekly newspaper and incorporating with Utusan Malaysia, ceased publication on 10 October 2019

Further reading

• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford (2020), "Malaysia", Digital News Report, UK, OCLC   854746354 {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)