The Daily Press (Chinese: 每日雜報, also 孖剌報, 孖剌西報, and 孖剌沙西報) was an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, published from 1857 for about 80 years. Founded and edited by George M Ryder, it was the first daily newspaper in Hong Kong.[1] In 1858, Yorick Jones Murrow, a tenacious Welshman born in 1817, took over the newspaper and he inaugurated the Chinese-language paper Hongkong Chinese and Foreign News (香港中外新報),[2] published three times per week.[3]: 47 Murrow led the paper on fearless attacks on the Colonial administration, leading ultimately to his imprisonment on a charge of libel.[4]: 8 He relinquished his role as editor in 1867 but remained its proprietor till his death in 1884.[3]: 148–9
It operated in a building at the junction of Wyndham Street and Glenealy, Central District, for some years, but had left no later than 1911, when the building was converted to the Wyndham Hotel.[5]
^Abstract of "國最早華文日報新史料的發現與研究－有關「香港船頭貨價紙」及「香港中外新報」的考究"Archived 9 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine (The discovery and study of the latest Chinese historical materials on China's earliest Chinese daily: Research on Hongkong Ports and Hongkong Chinese and Foreign News) volume 41 pages 91–103. 卓南生 (Zhang Nansheng). Mass Communication ResearchISSN1016-1007. Summer 1989. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
