Well, guess what: the Epoch Times is NOT a SF Newspaper! But so what. [From the Holy Wikipedia link] The Epoch Times is a multi-language, international media organisation. As a newspaper, the Times has been publishing in Chinese since May 2000. Headquartered in New York City, the newspaper has local news bureaus and a network of local reporters throughout the world. It is either sold or distributed free-of-charge in roughly 35 countries worldwide, and maintains editions in English, Chinese, nine other languages in print, and 21 on the internet. History[edit source] According to the newspaper itself, The Epoch Times was founded in New York in May 2000, following the arrest of a small circle of journalists in China in 2000.[1] As stated on the website, it was “in a suburban Atlanta home basement with a noble cause, a clear sense of purpose and a few home personal computers.” On August 12, 2002, The Epoch Times launched its first daily in Washington, D.C.[citation needed] In August 2004, an English language edition of The Epoch Times was launched in New York City, as well as Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and several other cities.[2] It is also distributed in San Diego, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, New Jersey, and Chicago.[3] The paper has associated media services, including the television station New Tang Dynasty TV and the radio station Sound of Hope. The Epoch Times is often connected with the Falun Gong spiritual group. A 2006 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service listed the newspaper as a Falun Gong affiliated media source,[4] and Professor David Ownby, an expert on Falun Gong, said that after years of ill-treatment by journalists, "they decided to publish a newspaper by themselves to publicize their beliefs..."[5] Distribution[edit source] As of February 2012, around the world 67 Epoch Times newspaper editions are published in print.[6] They are available in 21 languages and have a distribution of 1,315,000 copies in 35 different countries.[7] Among the 35 countries, distribution varies between daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly. Yuezhi Zhao, Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada, wrote in 2003 that The Epoch Times website and The Epoch Times group of newspapers had "grown into one of the largest Chinese-language news websites and newspaper groups outside China in the past two years, with local editions in more than thirty U.S. states, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and major Western European countries."[8] Now ten years later (2013) DaJiYuan is the biggest independent Chinese language newspaper group in the world.[6] In addition to its global distribution of multilingual print editions, The Epoch Times is also available in 21 additional languages on the internet. With a total online presence of 21 websites, The Epoch Times receives a combined 40,425,000 page views per/month, 6,123,000 visits per/month and out of those monthly visits 3,952,000 are unique visitors.[9] English The English language edition of the Epoch Times was started in September 2003 as a website, and it went to print in New York in August 2004. It is now published in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. Chinese The oldest of the Epoch Times editions, the Chinese paper has been in operation from August 2000, when it was launched as both a website and in a print edition in New York. The Chinese Epoch Times (Dajiyuan) is now the single largest Chinese language newspaper in the world, covering 35 countries across North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. French The French edition of The Epoch Times was launched as a website in January 2005, and went into print shortly after. La Grande Époque can now be found in France, Canada (Montreal, Quebec province) and Switzerland. Spanish The Spanish website of La Gran Epoca was launched in early 2005. Circulation of the print edition began in Argentina one week before the website went live. German The German website of Epoch Times Deutschland was launched in late 2004, around the time that the French edition was launched. It is now printed in Germany and a few neighboring countries as Die Neue Epoche. Russian The Russian language edition of the Epoch Times was started in December 2004 as a website, and later it went to print in St. Petersburg. The Russian newspaper is now distributed all over Russia. Ukrainian The Ukrainian website of Велика Епоха (or The Epoch Times) was launched in May 2005. In March 2006, the Russian edition (EpochTimes.ua/ru/) of the Ukrainian site was launched for the Ukrainians who speak Russian. Bulgarian The Bulgarian edition of The Epoch Times started operation in mid-February 2005. It started with a Bulgarian version of the “Nine Commentaries”. Hebrew The Hebrew edition of The Epoch Times started operation in December 2005. Slovak The Slovak edition of The Epoch Times started operation on March 1, 2006. Czech The Czech edition of The Epoch Times started operation on October 6, 2006. Turkish The Turkish edition of The Epoch Times started operation on June 9, 2011. Portuguese The Portuguese edition of The Epoch Times started operation on April 18, 2012. The core team is based in Brazil, with a satellite office in Portugal. Italian The Italian language edition website of Epoch Times was launched in December 2012 Persian The Persian edition of The Epoch Times was officially launched on Jan. 12, 2013. This edition serves those speaking Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, as well as in other parts of the globe. JMvV: This is odd: they have a Slovak, Check and Hebrew edition--but no Dutch, or Scandinavian languages... Oh well, maybe they think we are already well informed anyway
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 19:56:09 +0000