Liberty Times


The Liberty Times is a national newspaper published in Taiwan in Traditional Chinese characters. Founded by Lin Rong-San, it is published by the Liberty Times Group, which also publishes the English language newspaper the Taipei Times. The newspaper was first published on 17 April 1980, as Liberty Daily, before adopting its current name in 1987.
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It is one of the four major newspapers in Taiwan, the other three being the Apple Daily, the China Times, and the United Daily News. While the United Daily News is regarded as taking an editorial line that supports unification, the Liberty Times is thought to take a Pan Green pro-independence political stance.

Awards

YearAwarded byCategoryAward TypeTitleJournalistsReferences
2010Excellence in Reporting on the EnvironmentAward for Excellence煙囪裡的秘密—台灣六輕麥寮高罹癌率大追蹤劉力仁、林國賢、謝文華、王昶閔
2010Printed Newspapers Award菜販捐圖書館、續攢千萬助貧黃明堂

Online edition

In the first half of 2020 the website ltn.com.tw was one of the most popular and reliable sources in Chinese Wikipedia.
According to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, the website ltn.com.tw is the 10th and 17th most visited in Taiwan respectively, as of July 2020.