The Beijing News began publishing on 11 November 2003 while Nanfang Media Group was owned by the
Guangdong provincial committee of the CCP. Initially, staff from Nanfang Media Group dominated the day-to-day operation of the newspaper, turning
The Beijing News into one of Beijing's most influential newspapers. According to Jonathan Hassid, an assistant professor (from 2015 to 2018) at
Iowa State University, the two publishers had different difficulties in their publishing business.
Guangming Daily had a valuable central-level administrative rank but was the country poorest major publisher, while "Nanfang" had money to invest but its administrative rank was restricting the publisher to obtain new publication number or expand outside their home province Guangdong. In 2005, staff and online readers protested the sacking of the editors of the newspaper. In July 2011, the newspaper defied the ban on reporting the
Wenzhou train collision. However, in the same month, the newspaper scrapped 9 pages of special reporting. On 1 September 2011, the newspaper was taken over by the Publicity Department of the . In 2013, it was reported that Dai Zigeng, a publisher of the newspaper, had verbally resigned due to political pressure from the propaganda authorities. In 2014, it was reported that the municipal Publicity Department had acquired the remaining 49% stake from Nanfang Media Group. In February 2014,
The Beijing News, made a news coverage regarding
Zhou Yongkang's son possible corruption, but the article was taken down from the newspaper's website. In 2018, the merger of the newspapers
The Beijing News, the ''
and the news website qianlong.com
() was announced. Beijing Morning Post'' ceased the publication in the same year. ==See also==