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The Straits Times was founded on the 15th of July 1845 by Armenian merchant Catchick Moses. Moses launched the publication after acquiring printing equipment from a bankrupt partner named Marterus Thaddeus Apcar and partnering with English journalist Robert Carr Woods Sr.
The newspaper was renamed The Shonan Times on the 20th of February 1942 following the Fall of Singapore. The publication later changed its spelling to The Syonan Times, The Syonan Sinbun, and finally The Syonan Shimbun on the 8th of December 1943 before reverting to The Straits Times on the 5th of September 1945.
Alexander W. Still served as editor-in-chief from 1926 until 1944 and earned the moniker the Thunderer of the East. He built a reputation for bold reporting and fearless commentary while attacking government secrecy and investigating corruption in both government and business.
The publication became a daily newspaper in 1858 after struggling as a weekly for over a decade. Its first major political stance was taken against James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak, whom editor Robert Carr Woods Sr. charged with massacring peaceful civilian merchants.
A leak published on the socio-political website Wake Up, Singapore revealed that SPH Media inflated its circulation figures in 2022 by 85 to 95,000 copies daily. The inflation involved fictitious counts, double-counting subscriptions, and including copies that were printed but destroyed.
The newspaper operates under out of bounds markers that denote permissible topics for public discussion and employs government-appointed monitors to oversee the newsroom. Former editor-in-chief Cheong Yip Seng alleged that disapproval from these monitors could prevent internal promotion, and the paper maintains close links to the ruling People's Action Party.