The Daily Press (, also , , and ), also The Hong Kong Daily Press, 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."下一頁 - 香港報業公會." Newspaper Society of Hong Kong. Retrieved 24 June 2017. 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 (),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" (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 Research . Summer 1989. Retrieved 24 June 2017. published three times per week.The Chinese paper eventually became Wah Kiu Yat Po. Murrow led the paper on fearless attacks on the Colonial administration, leading ultimately to his imprisonment on a charge of libel. He relinquished his role as editor in 1867 but remained its proprietor until his death in 1884.
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.
See also List of newspapers in Hong Kong
References
External links Online archive of editions up to September 1941 maintained by the Hong Kong Public Libraries