The consequences of democratisation on Taiwan’s daily press

Since the end of the 1980s, there has been a free press in Taiwan. Before then, the newspapers had been muzzled for almost forty years by the Nationalist regime. On an economic level, the abolition of controls has opened up the daily newspaper market to competition; on a political level, it has made it possible for all shades of opinion to be freely expressed. This article seeks to examine the impact of the end of the controlling of the daily press in Taiwan, and more broadly, the links betwe..