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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Founder(s) | Yusof Ishak |
Publisher | Mohamad Azlan Jaafar |
Editor | Aznan Bakar[1] |
Deputy editor | Zulkifli Jalil |
News editor | Ismail Daud Muhammad Nizam Abdul Hamid Teon Ng Meor Harman Meor Shakri Mohd.Radzi Mohd. zain |
Founded | 29 May 1939 | (as Utusan Melayu) in Singapore
Political alignment | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) |
Language | Malay (primary) and English (secondary) |
Headquarters | No. 64, Queen Street and No. 185, Cecil Street, Singapore (former HQ) No. 44, Jalan Utusan, Off Jalan Chan Sow Lin, 55200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (former HQ) Level 4 (East) & Level 5 Quattro West, 4, Persiaran Barat, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor (current HQ, since 2020) |
Country | Malaysia Singapore (former) |
Circulation | 154,776 (daily) 336,233 (Mingguan Malaysia) 4,084 (daily E-paper) 4,035 (Mingguan Malaysia E-paper)[2][3] |
OCLC number | 9786722 |
Website | www |
Free online archives | ww1 |
Utusan Malaysia (Jawi: اوتوسن مليسيا; English: The Malaysian Tribune or simply Utusan) is a Malaysian Malay language daily newspaper headquartered outside Kuala Lumpur. 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. 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.[4][5] Despite initial reports that the newspaper and its sister papers Mingguan Malaysia, Kosmo!, 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 United Malays National Organisation (UMNO).[6][7]
Though Utusan ceased operations on 9 October 2019,[8][9][10] 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.[11][12] 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.[13] The newspaper was relaunched on 20 July 2020.[14]