List of newspapers in Malaysia

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

Published newspapers by languages

English

• New Straits Times – Malaysia (including Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island), Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s nationwide Malaysian English-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays (includes Johorean Malay and Penangite Malay), Malaysian Chinese (includes Penangite 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 (July 15, 1845; 178 years ago (1845-07-15)).
• 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 – Malaysia (including Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island), Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s largest and number one nationwide Malaysian English-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays (includes Johorean Malay and Penangite Malay), Malaysian Chinese (includes Penangite 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 (September 9, 1971; 52 years ago (1971-09-09)).
• The Sun – Malaysia's nationwide English-language tabloid newspaper

Malay

• Berita Harian – Malaysia (including Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island), Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s nationwide Malaysian Malay-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays (includes Johorean Malay and Penangite Malay) community was officially first published based in Singapore and first published as Berita Harian on 1 July 1957 (July 1, 1957; 66 years ago (1957-07-01)).
• Harakah – owned by Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)
• Harian Metro – Malaysia (including Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s largest and number one nationwide Malaysian Malay-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays teenager and youth or teen community was officially second published based in Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District and first published as the southern edition of Harian Metro and Harian Metro Edisi Utara on 25 March 1992 and 1 August 1994 (March 25, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-03-25) and August 1, 1994; 29 years ago (1994-08-01)).
• 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

Chinese

• Guang Ming Daily (光明日報) - Georgetown (the state capital of 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 (January 15, 1939; 85 years ago (1939-01-15)).
• Kwong Wat Yit Poh (光華日報) - Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island)-based 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 Kwong Wat Yit Poh (光華日報) on 20 December 1910 (December 20, 1910; 113 years ago (1910-12-20)).
• Nanyang Siang Pau (南洋商報) - Peninsular Malaysia (including Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'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 (September 6, 1923; 100 years ago (1923-09-06)).
• Sin Chew Daily (星洲日報) – Malaysia (including Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'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 (January 15, 1929; 95 years ago (1929-01-15)).

Indigenous

• Utusan Borneo – Iban daily in Sarawak

Tamil

• Makkal Osai – மக்கள் ஓசை
• Malaysia Nanban

Arabic

• Aswaq Magazine – business sectors and events; based in Selangor

Dutch

• Maleisië Nieuws – aggregated news on Malaysia; based in Kuala Lumpur

Online-only newspapers

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

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

References

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)