The Edge Financial Daily Ends Run After 13 Years

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CORONAVIRUS | The media industry here suffered its first casualty as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic with the ending of The Edge Financial Daily (FD)
In a note to readers announcing the last issue today, The Edge publisher and chief executive officer Ho Kay Tat and editor-in-chief Azam Aris said FD was unable to cope with both the daily’s shift to digital operations and the subsequent movement control order (MCO). Launched in May 2007 at the start of the global financial crisis, FD has survived a 13-year run, with the exception of a brief three-month halt in operations in 2015 when the then BN-led Home Ministry suspended The Edge’s publishing permits following its coverage of the 1MDB scandal
“Sadly, FD is unable to survive the double onslaught of the shift to digital news and the current lockdown of the economy because of the Covid-19 pandemic
“This will, therefore, be the last issue of FD. But it will not be the last stories our journalists will write for you,” Ho and Azam said in a statement. However, FD’s sister publication, The Edge Weekly, remains in operations
On Oct 9, 2019, Utusan Malaysia officially ceased operation 80 years after the Malay daily was first published. It began as Utusan Melayu in Jawi in 1939.Utusan was the third long-standing daily paper after Tamil Nesan (1924-2019) and the print edition of the Malay Mail (1896-2018) to cease publications within a 10-month stretch. - Mkini

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