| College Daily | |
| Native Name: | 留学生日报 |
| Formation: | 2014 |
| Founder: | Guoyu Timothy Lin |
| Founding Location: | Columbus, Ohio |
| Type: | New media |
| Vat Id: | (for European organizations) --> |
| Headquarters: | Times Square |
| Location: | New York City |
| Location2: | Beijing |
| Owners: | --> |
| Staff: | 52 |
| Staff Year: | 2021 |
College Daily is a new media publication whose primary audience is Chinese students studying in North America.
College Daily was founded in 2014 and expanded from there. The primary audience is overseas Chinese students, particularly those studying in North America.
In August 2019, The New Yorker published a story about College Daily, calling it a "post-truth" publication where Chinese students in the U.S. receive their news." The story noted that College Daily had aggregated and reproduced content sourced from Infowars and RT as well as state propaganda outlets such as Sputnik News.[1]
As of August 2019 the College Daily employed 30 in their Beijing office and 15 at their New York City office.
CollegeDaily has raised a total of $3M in funding over 1 round. This was a Series A round raised on Nov 28, 2017.
CollegeDaily is funded by 3 investors. Tencent Holdings and CMC Capital Group are the most recent investors.
College Daily articles about Yale have been linked to Chinese state propaganda by the Yale Daily News.[2]
CollegeDaily.cn is a Beijing-based news and information platform targeting international Chinese students as well as international college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals.
Founded in 2014, CollegeDailyCN has grown to cover most of international students studying in North America. Every day, over 500,000 reader get useful information from its multiple platforms. It also has a team of student journalists and editors who provide useful articles and researches to the readers.
The College Daily has spread misleading and false information about the 2019 Hong Kong Protests including that protesters would receive a $20 million reward for killing a police officer. The Diplomat described their efforts to spread misleading information as “notorious."[3]
In September 2019 the College Daily published a story calling for Australian journalist and academic Vicky Xiuzhong Xu’s estranged father to be expelled from China due to her outspoken journalism. The article asserted that Xu was an “American mouthpiece” and that she only criticized the Chinese government in order to get political asylum in Australia.[4]