The best print media will survive By Cheng Tzu-leong 鄭自隆 On Monday, the print version of the Taiwanese edition of the Apple Daily flew off the presses for the last time. The Chinese-language newspaper, owned by Hong Kong-based Next Digital Ltd, began publishing in Taiwan on May 2, 2003. At the time, Taiwan had just been through the SARS epidemic and the nation was still in a state of shock; today the newspaper has pulled the plug on its print edition just as Taiwan is battling a resurgence of COVID-19. Born out of one coronavirus outbreak and finished off by another, the demise of the print edition of the Apple Daily is a sad event.