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''Apple Daily'' is a Hong Kong-based tabloid-style newspaper founded in 1995 by Jimmy Lai Chee Ying and is published by its company, Next Media. A sister publication carrying the same name is published in Taiwan, Republic of China under a joint venture between Next Media and other Taiwanese companies. Apple Daily tends to favour the pan-democracy camp in its editorials and commentaries. However, this position has resulted in backlashes - ostensibly led by the Chinese government, who opposes democracy in Hong Kong - involving advertising boycotts, online hacking attacks and torchings of their newspapers. Apple Daily's popularity as Hong Kong's second best selling newspaper, according to AC Nielsen, is derived from its concentration on celebrity coverage, brash news style, sensationalist news reportage and its anti-government political positions. == History == Apple Daily was founded by Jimmy Lai Chee Ying on 20 June 1995. Founder Jimmy Lai brainstormed the name of this newspaper, stating that "if Adam and Eve didn't eat the apple, there would be no evil or wrongdoings in this world, which made news a non-existing term". Unlike newspapers at that time, it used colour printing on all pages of the newspaper and did not allow advertisements covering the complete front page. Since then, it has attracted a large readership. Other newspapers followed suit, and a few were forced to close due to intense competition from Apple Daily. Techniques used by Apple Daily to gain readership included price warring, extensive use of written Cantonese, at a time when most Hong Kong newspapers used written vernacular Chinese, and a focus on reporting crime, celebrity news, eroticism, gambling, and drug use. The newspaper uncovered many political scandals, including a former member of the Legislative Council not reporting conflict of interest in 2000, a former Financial Secretary Antony Leung for tax evasion on a Lexus LS 430 which saved him HK$50,000 (USD $6,400), and many others, leading to the convictions or forced resignations of those individuals. In 2000, an ''Apple Daily'' reporter was sentenced to 10 months in jail for bribing police officers for information concerning criminal cases.〔http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel4/992/20000608/94367.html〕〔http://the-sun.on.cc/channels/news/20030527/20030527022754_0001.html〕 ''Apple Daily'' often criticizes the Central Government of China and pro-China governments in Hong Kong.〔 Just prior to 1 July 2003, the newspaper encouraged people to take to the street and protest against the government. On that day of protest, it prepared banners and newspaper front pages for the public to carry and protest. The 2003 protest drew 500,000 citizens (the third largest protest ever seen in Hong Kong) to the Hong Kong 1 July marches. Since then, it has been viewed as the newspaper that helped carry the message of protest against the government. In particular, it was at the forefront of the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests in 2014, helping to rally support for the Occupy Central with Love and Peace protests and pushing back against the Chinese government's proposal for full suffrage (with all candidates vetted by the Chinese government). Editor-in-chief and largest shareholder of parent company Next Media Jimmy Lai was forced to step down in 2014 after his arrest for refusing to leave a key protest site in the central business district of Hong Kong. Ip Yut-kin, print media CEO of Next Media, succeeded him. In March 2015, Chan Pui-man became the first female chief editor of the journal, replacing Ip Yut-kin.〔http://www.ejinsight.com/20150310-meet-apple-daily-new-female-editor-in-chief/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apple Daily」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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