Beijing Today

Beijing Today (Chinese: 今日北京; pinyin: Jīnrì Běijīng) is a weekly English newspaper catering to expatriates and embassies that covers current events, art, cinema, music, dining, and shopping in Beijing.

Beijing Today
Front page of Beijing Today from 3 January 2014
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Beijing Education Media Co., Ltd.
PublisherBeijing Youth Daily Publishing Company
EditorJack Wang
FoundedMay 2001
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters23 Baijiazhuang Dong Li, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Circulation50,000 weekly (as of August 2011)
ISSN2095-9591
Websitebeijingtoday.com.cn

The newspaper is run by the publisher of Beijing Youth Daily.

It is assigned the Chinese Issue Number (Chinese: 统一刊号; pinyin: tǒngyī kānhào) CN11-0120.

History

Beijing Today began publication in May 2001[1] as a 16-page broadsheet newspaper. Its initial incarnation focused on hard news and was positioned to compete with China Daily in the Beijing market.

In May 2005, the paper was redesigned as a 32-page compact with a stronger focus on art and culture, as well as events at local embassies. The print size contracted to 24 pages in 2006 and 16 pages in January 2012.[2]

In December 2011, Beijing Today Media became wholly owned by Beijing Education Media, another subsidiary of the Beijing Youth Daily Group. As part of its transition to Beijing Education Media, Beijing Today began publishing an 8-page edition packaged together with a new 8-page paper called Teens Post.[3]

Teens Post ran its final issue on July 19, 2013, and Beijing Today resumed a 16-page print run. The current incarnation splits content between two sections: Beijing Today Metro and Beijing Today News.

gollark: It's an element.
gollark: Well, utilitarianism is literally metaphorically erbium, as things go.
gollark: That last bit does sound hilariously egotistical, but the vast majority of possible things which could be valued are basically entirely opposed to my own.
gollark: I think basically all the conveniently expressible "maximize X" things break horribly if actually taken seriously, and I also don't want people to just "have their own personal prescriptions about what is a good quality in the world", since it might severely disagree with mine.
gollark: BRB, maximizing paperclips.

See also

References
  1. "About Beijing Today" Archived 2013-06-28 at the Wayback Machine, Beijing Today
  2. Issue No. 552, Beijing Today
  3. Issue No. 580, Beijing Today
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