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Today Daily News (Toronto)

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Today Daily News (????????????) is a Chinese language newspaper in Canada, launched on November 12005. It is published by Today Daily News International in Scarborough, Ontario|Scarborough.

It is called the Canada Eastern Edition (?????????) even though it is the only edition published at the moment.

The paper is published 7 days a week in traditional Chinese in the broadsheet format. News coverage includes headline news, news at the Greater Toronto Area|metro and national levels, news from Greater China, Chinese community news, international news, entertainment, financial news, sports, and supplements.

The paper does not own its own printing press; printing is being contracted out to a printer (publisher)|printer.




Today Daily News is also published online on the world wide web. The online version contains an exact copy of the day???s newspaper; neither supplements nor back issues are online, however. Access is free of charge.

The online version of Today Daily News works in a way similar to the ???ePaper??? version of Oriental Daily News and Apple Daily and is very different from the way most online newspapers work:
  • When a visitor visits the web site, the visitor is presented with a GIF thumbnail image of the front page of the paper.

  • Clicking the image leads to a new page with GIF thumbnail images of each of the major sections.

  • Clicking any of the thumbnails of a section leads to a new page with GIF thumbnail images of each of the pages in that section.

  • Finally, clicking the thumbnail image of any page leads to a new page containing an image of that page, consisting of 9 JPEG sub-images.


In other words, the online version of Today Daily News aims to give the visitor an experience comparable to reading a printed newspaper.

The way the online version works presents a number of accessibility problems:
  • There is no search function;

  • It is not possible to read the paper with text-based web browser|browsers (nor with screen readers, but screen readers for Chinese are not known to exist);

  • Search engines will not be able to index the news stories reported by Today Daily News;

  • It would not be understood by people who can only read simplified Chinese (who normally would be able to benefit from third-party utility software|utilities like NJStar).

Nevertheless, some users like this format and cites a number of advantages:
  • It feels like reading a real paper;

  • It is possible to look up advertisements, which is sometimes helpful.





Two weekly magazine supplemnts, to be distributed free of charge with the paper, have been planned:
  • Saturday???Today Life Magazine (??????????????????), a lifestyle-and-entertainment magazine; and

  • Sunday???Today Weekly (????????????), a newsmagazine with some entertainment content.





The appearance of a new competitor has caused the other established Chinese language newspapers to lower their retail prices before Today Daily News??? scheduled launch date..

There was some confusion on the first day of its launch, when a one-page flyer in broadsheet format (containing no news stories but rather a brief introduction of the paper and a form for a lucky draw) appeared in retail outlets early in the morning; a real paper was available for free pick-up later in the day.

As a promotion, the first 4 issues of the paper were free of charge.



  • Ming Pao Daily News (Toronto)|Ming Pao Daily News

  • Sing Tao Daily (Toronto)|Sing Tao Daily

  • World Journal (Toronto)|World Journal




  • http://www.todaydailynews.com Official web site


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Category:Chinese media in Canada
Category:Canadian newspapers
category:Chinese-language newspapers (Traditional Chinese)

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Today Daily News (Toronto)".


Last Modified:   2005-11-07


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