Apple Daily (Chinese: 蘋果日報; pinyin: Píngguǒ Rìbào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pîn-kó Ji̍t-pò) was a Chinese-language tabloid published in Taiwan, known for its sensational headlines, paparazzi photographs, and animated news videos.
[6] Opening the Apple Daily in Taiwan was part of a larger push by parent company Next Media into the Taiwanese market.
[8] Overall, the paper primary represented a "mild" form of Taiwanese identity supporting the status quo and opposing both reunification and "radical" independence.
[11] Tsai Eng-meng had made a controversial comment in an interview with Washington Post, stating that reports about massacre in the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 were not true.
[15] On 4 April 2019, Apple Daily became an online newspaper, and began charging a NT$10 monthly subscription fee in September 2019, following a trial period between June and August 2019.