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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 | Ismail Daud |
| News editor | Muhammad Nizam Abdul Hamid Teon Ng Shariza Abdullah Mohd. Radzi Mohd. Zain Adlinahani Khalil Imran Mohamad Nor Yulpisman Asli Zabry Mohd. Mazlan |
| Founded | 29 May 1939 (as Utusan Melayu) in Singapore |
| Political alignment | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) - formerly |
| 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] and formally relaunched on 20 July.[14]
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- ^ "Circulation Figures Newspapers - West and East Malaysia, July-December 2015" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations Malaysia. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ "Circulation Figures Digital Replica" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations Malaysia. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ Surin Murugiah (9 October 2019). "Utusan Melayu ceases operations". The Edge Markets. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Hidayah Hairom (9 October 2019). "Utusan Melayu sah henti operasi hari ini". Utusan Malaysia. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Buang, Shakira (20 August 2019). "Utusan gets RM1.6m reprieve from Umno". Malaysiakini. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ Habibu, Sira (20 August 2019). "Utusan not shuttering, price of paper to increase by 50 sen". The Star. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ "Utusan Group ceases operations, staff told to vacate offices by 1pm Wednesday (Oct 9)". The Star. 9 October 2019. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ "End of the road for Utusan". Free Malaysia Today. 9 October 2019. Archived from the original on 10 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ "Utusan Melayu henti operasi perniagaan". Utusan Malaysia. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ "Utusan ceases publication but may be back soon". The Star. 10 October 2019. Archived from the original on 10 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Asyraf, Faisal. "Some of Utusan workers will be rehired by new company, says Dr M". Malaysiakini. Archived from the original on 10 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Utusan Malaysia muncul semula 2020". Malaysiakini. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Utusan Malaysia set to return in July". Malaysiakini. 21 June 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2020.