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''Utusan Malaysia'' ( Jawi: اوتوسن مليسيا;
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: ''The Malaysian Tribune'' or simply ''Utusan'') is a Malaysian Malay-language daily newspaper. Formerly owned by the Utusan Group, the newspaper is currently owned by Media Mulia. Distinctive for its blue masthead as its logo and trademark, ''Utusan Malaysia'' is the oldest Malay-language newspaper in Malaysia and the world. It was first published in Jawi in 1939 and became an influential medium for the people to voice out their opinions against British colonial rule in Malaya. Since 2018, the newspaper shifted its size from broadsheet to a tabloid format. In recent years, ''Utusan Malaysia'' went through a critical business period as its daily circulation and readership continued to decline, along with the deteriorating cash flow of its former parent company. Despite initial reports that the newspaper and its sister papers ''Mingguan Malaysia'', ''
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'', and ''Kosmo! Ahad'' would be shutting down in mid-August 2019, the newspaper's publisher Utusan Group announced that they would continue publishing after receiving a RM$1.6 million cash injection from the
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(UMNO). Though ''Utusan'' ceased operations on 9 October 2019, it was subsequently reported that the newspaper would resume publication on 1 November 2019 after Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary's Aurora Mulia acquired a majority stake in Utusan's wholly owned subsidiary Dilof Sdn Bhd. However, the anticipated publication did not materialise. In response to the closure of the newspaper, the then Minister of Entrepreneur Development, Redzuan Yusof, announced that ''Utusan Malaysia'' will make its comeback in 2020. The newspaper was relaunched on 20 July 2020.


History

''Utusan Malaysia'' traces its roots to 1939 when it was first published as ''Utusan Melayu'', with its address at Queen Street, Singapore. It was founded by
Yusof Ishak Yusof bin Ishak (12 August 191023 November 1970) was a Singaporean politician and journalist who served as the first president of Singapore from 1965 until his death in 1970. Prior to becoming head of state, Yusof was a well-known journalis ...
, who later became the first
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, and Abdul Rahim Kajai, dubbed the father of Malay journalism. It temporarily suspended publication during the
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and
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. The newspaper moved its headquarters to Cecil Street,
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in 1945, and in 1959 relocated to Kuala Lumpur. ''Utusan Malaysia'' started publication on 1 September 1967, being a romanised version for ''Utusan Melayu'' and daily edition of ''Mingguan Malaysia''. ''Mingguan Malaysia'' published 2 years earlier, on 30 August 1964. In 1997, the Group made its entry into the world of
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with the launch of "Utusan Malaysia Online" (or simply "Utusan Online"), Malaysia's first
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in full text and visuals. The service provided, in
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with
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, enables pay-subscribers to read exact
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s of the Group's newspapers, including ''Utusan Malaysia''. On 2 July 2001, "Utusan Education Portal" (''Portal Pendidikan Utusan'') was launched. The free service has received recognition from
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(the "Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems") as one of the top five education websites in Malaysia in 2001. On September 16, 2018, to coincide with 55th anniversary of Malaysia's formation, ''Utusan Malaysia'' and its Sunday edition ''Mingguan Malaysia'' shifted from broadsheet to tabloid format. ''Utusan'' reportedly said the change in size was part of their effort to fulfil the needs and taste of their readers. On February 8, 2019, ''Utusan'' is no longer under direct ownership by UMNO after 31.6 per cent stake of its parent company was acquired by Abd Aziz Sheikh Fadzir. On 19 August 2019, the Utusan Group announced that ''Utusan Malaysia'', its Sunday paper ''Mingguan Malaysia'', and its sister papers ''
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'' and ''Kosmo! Ahad'' would cease their print editions on 21 August 2019 due to the company's financial woes and bankruptcy. ''Utusan Malaysia'' will continue its online operations. The decline of ''Utusan Malaysia'' readership and poor financial performance has been attributed by some to its pro-
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and Malay nationalist standpoint. Despite initial reports that the ''Utusan Malaysia'' would be shutting down, the Utusan Group reversed their decision after receiving a RM1.6 million cash injection from the
United Malays National Organisation The United Malays National Organisation (Malay: ; Jawi: ; abbreviated UMNO () or less commonly PEKEMBAR), is a nationalist right-wing political party in Malaysia. As the oldest continuous national political party within Malaysia (since its in ...
. To cover costs, the newspaper's price will be raised by 50 sen to RM 1.50 and ''Mingguan Malaysia'' price would be raised to RM 2.00 beginning 23 August 2019. Despite financial injection, ''Utusan Malaysia'' and its sister papers continued to suffer losses and mounting debt from decreasing circulations, and it finally shuttered on 9 October 2019. On 10 October 2019, it was reported that the Utusan Group's newspapers would resume publication on 1 November 2019; however, the anticipated publication did not take place. Aurora Mulia, a company linked to business tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, had reportedly acquired a 70% stake in Utusan's wholly owned subsidiary Dilof Sdn Bhd. However, only some of ''Utusan'' 862 retrenched employees would be re-hired by the new management. In January 2020, it was reported that ''Utusan Malaysia'', along with its sister newspaper, ''Kosmo!'' is set to be revived soon, as some sources in the industry confirmed that the newspaper's new management had begun recruiting staff to start working in February. The newspaper was initially expected to be relaunched in April 2020, but it did not take place. ''Utusan'', together with ''Kosmo!'' was expected to be relaunched in July 2020. According to their website, an animated teaser, which was written in Malay, showed: "Nantikan Julai ini. Dibawakan oleh Media Mulia Sdn Bhd." ("Awaiting this July. Brought to you by Media Mulia Sdn Bhd,"). It is understood that the new headquarters of the publication will be based at the
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main office at Jalan Riong, Bangsar. On July 6, it was reported that the newspaper's relaunch is expected to take place on July 20,, and the newspaper was relaunched on July 20 with the front-page headline "Bangkit Semula", or 'Rise Again'.


Headquarters

The newspaper's first building was located at Queen Street, Singapore in 1939. In 1958, it moved to
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. A new seven-storey high office building was erected in 2010, opposite the existing headquarters. It was built on the former site of a car park for its staff. The official move to the new Utusan Group premises took place in 2013. In July 2020, it has been reported that ''Utusan Malaysia,'' with several other newspapers, namely ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' (NST) and ''The Malaysian Reserve,'' will relocate its headquarters from Kuala Lumpur to
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,
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by the end of 2020 or mid-2021. The relocation was made as part of
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’s recovery plan to overcome financial crisis.


Format

With its distinctive blue masthead as its
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and
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, ''Utusan Malaysia'' had over 32 pages of news and current affairs, with regular supplements, focusing on diverse topics as
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. It was Malaysia's only broadsheet newspaper in a national language until 16 September 2018, when it switched to the tabloid newspaper format. Mingguan Malaysia, Utusan's weekend edition, had a red masthead. Sections such as Pancawarna and Pancaindera (entertainment section) are published in tabloid size, rather than broadsheet.


Circulation

Utusan Malaysia's circulation peaked at 350,000 copies a day in the 1990s and was one of the top selling newspapers in Malaysia. Circulation had declined by about 250,000 in 2004 and further down to 144,438 copies in first half of 2016. Mingguan Malaysia, the Sunday edition of Utusan Malaysia, had a circulation of 313,495 on first half of 2016, which made it the most popular Malay language newspaper.


Achievements


Criticism


Malay supremacism

''Utusan'' frequently stoked
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sentiments with provocative headlines championing the Dasar Ekonomi Baru and
Ketuanan Melayu ''Ketuanan Melayu'' (Jawi script: كتوانن ملايو; "Malay Overlordship") is a political concept that emphasises Malay preeminence in present-day Malaysia. The Malays of Malaysia have claimed a special position and exceptional rights ...
. Just one day after the 2013 general elections, in which the ruling
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coalition suffered what was until then its worst-ever results, ''Utusan'' published a highly racist feature article with the headline "''Apa lagi Cina mahu?''" ("What else do the Chinese want?") accusing
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s of trying to overthrow the Malay-dominated government and labelling them "ungrateful". Third-party analysts have noted that the massive electoral swing could be attributed to urban votes of all races deserting the ruling coalition wholesale, rather than pinpointed to any particular race. Despite Prime Minister Najib Razak's defence of the newspaper, ''Utusan'' earned widespread condemnation from Malaysians for its unapologetic race-baiting. In view of ''Utusan'' extreme racist rhetoric, the former Opposition-led
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state government staged a boycott against the newspaper, with other Opposition states following suit. A motion was also set by the
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state government to boycott ''Utusan'' while all Selangor state agencies and departments were told to refrain from buying and advertising in the newspaper, in a move to protest a short story titled "''Politik Baru YB J''" by columnist Datuk Chamil Wariya that appeared in the paper which mentioned the assassination of a fictional character resembling
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assemblywoman Teresa Kok. Statements by
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s in then Opposition-held states were out of context, manipulated, or otherwise downright fabricated. In January 2011, the newspaper suspended a senior journalist, Hata Wahari, president of the National Union of Journalists, after alleging that Hata had brought the newspaper into disrepute and "insulted" its management. Hata was later dismissed from the Utusan group in May of that year. On 20 May 2013, Hata staged a one-man protest in front of the Utusan Melayu headquarters, calling for an end to "irresponsible journalism" and "racist reporting". He was consequently jeered and labelled a "communist" by the ''Utusan'' staff gathered there, who also hurled two packets of fried
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at him.


Accusations of propaganda

The newspaper has been accused as being a propaganda mouthpiece of the
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(UMNO) government as well as inciting racial hatred in its articles against the non-Malays of the country. The widely perceived view by most Malaysians that ''Utusan Malaysia'' was nothing more than a propaganda newsletter for the ruling government was given much greater credence after its deputy chief editor Zaini Hassan openly stated in a forum organised by the
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that it was acceptable for ''Utusan'' to "spin facts" to be "biased in our BN_Government's.html" ;"title="Barisan_Nasional.html" ;"title="he Barisan Nasional">BN Government's">Barisan_Nasional.html" ;"title="he Barisan Nasional">BN Government'sfavour". The ''Malaysiakini'' reporter covering the forum was later barred from attending.


Fake news

Utusan offered an apology after running news of an 87-year-old Catholic missionary in Java who purportedly converted to Islam after recovering from a coma. It later turned out that the article was sourced from a fictional news story on a satirical website, the World News Daily Report.


Lawsuits

Numerous lawsuits were filed against ''Utusan'' by several personalities from the former
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coalition. Notably, Penang Chief Minister
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successfully sued for libel twice against the paper, winning RM400,000 in accumulated damages for both lawsuits. On 14 December 2012,
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was awarded RM50,000 in damages after a High Court judge declared that an ''Utusan'' article painting him as anti-Islam was "by all accounts mischievous". On 21 January 2013, the High Court awarded
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RM45,000 in damages after a series of ''Utusan'' articles deliberately misrepresented his statement in a
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interview so as to suggest that the opposition leader was pro-
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(a controversial stance in Muslim-majority Malaysia). The paper's lawyer triggered significant uproar during proceedings when he argued that newspapers did not have the "luxury of time" to ascertain the truth of their reports. On 30 March 2016, celebrity and infotainer
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filed a lawsuit against ''Utusan'' for the paper's article entitled 'Peace Yall FM tak bayar gaji' which pointing his company for their iresponsible to their workers. In November, the lawsuit failed to resolved.


Awards and recognition

''Utusan'' won the "IFRA Publish Asia 2003 Award" for the "Best in Print" category on 20 March 2002. It was the first international-level award to be won by the newspaper. In 2014, it won two awards in
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Media Awards 2014.


See also

*Other
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newspapers in Malaysia: **''
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'' **''
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'' **''
Kosmo! ''Kosmo!'' (short for ''Cosmopolitan''; Malay: ''Kosmopolitan'') is a Malay-language compact format newspaper tabloid in Malaysia owned by the Utusan Group, which also owns ''Kosmo!'' Sunday paper ''Kosmo! Ahad'', ''Utusan Malaysia'', and ''Mingg ...
'' **''
Utusan Borneo ''The Borneo Post'', established in 1978, is the largest and widest read English-language daily newspaper in East Malaysia. In June 2018, Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2018 ranked The Borneo Post third in terms of brand trust of use ...
'', a newspaper publication for the state of
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and
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**''
Sinar Harian ''Sinar Harian'' (''Daily Light'') is a Malay-language daily newspaper published in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia in a compact format. It first hit the newsstands on 31 March 2006 in the East Coast states of Kelantan and Terengganu before expand ...
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References


External links


Official website
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