There was a time in the quite recent past – within the last 15 years – when Hong Kong's South China Morning Post was the richest newspaper on the planet, with profit margins over 50 percent. The paper had a distinct edge on China reporting and analysis in the 1980s and early 1990s when there was feverish interest in economic opportunities there. The SCMP could market China information to businessmen, banks, embassies and pay-wall their website for insightful China reporting.
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There was a time in the quite recent past – within the last 15 years – when Hong Kong's South China Morning Post was the richest newspaper on the planet, with profit margins over 50 percent. The paper had a distinct edge on China reporting and analysis in the 1980s and early 1990s when there was feverish interest in economic opportunities there. The SCMP could market China information to businessmen, banks, embassies and pay-wall their website for insightful China reporting.
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