SPH's digital push gains traction

Singapore

SINGAPORE Press Holdings' efforts to build up its digital media via new online and mobile offerings to tackle the "traumatic transition" facing the core traditional media business are bearing fruit, said chairman Lee Boon Yang.

SPH's total newspaper circulation for print and digital editions clicked higher by 1.7 per cent to an average of 1.07 million copies per day in the financial period ended August 2014 from a year ago.

"This was achieved by continuing to excel in print while strengthening and diversifying our presence in the digital space. Today, we are (also) a full-fledged digital media company," he said while pointing out that the digita…