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| Industry | News |
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| Founded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 風傳媒 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 风传媒 | ||||||
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| 風傳媒 The Storm Media | |
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| Origin | Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Subscribers | 2 million [1] (December 2024) |
The Storm Media is a Chinese-language online news media headquartered in Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan.
Founder Zhang Guojun was the general manager of Goldman Sachs Taipei Branch and served as a consultant to Fubon Financial Holdings after retirement. Publisher Wang Jianzhuang is a professor at Shih Hsin University. The start-up capital of The Storm Media, NT$60 million, was all Zhang Guojun's personal investment. The editorial team comes from the China Times newspaper group and the Next Magazine. [2]
The Storm Media has cooperated with many media outlets in Taiwan and has signed contracts with overseas news media such as BBC Chinese, Asahi Shimbun Chinese, Deutsche Welle, Xinhua News Agency, and The Wall Street Journal to become long-term content partners. [3] [4]
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