The Spectator Daily is an Indian English language digital news publication (formerly a weekly compact newspaper) based in Chennai.

[1] The Spectator Daily was founded as a weekly in 1836 with J. Ouchterlony as its first publisher.

After him, the newspaper was published by C. Sooboo Moodely and C. M. Pereira.

The newspaper was purchased by Gantz and Sons and merged with The Madras Times in 1859.

[3] The newspaper returned to digital version in early 2023.