Bab 193: Chapter 193: The True Role of Jiuding News Agency
Regarding the impressive sales figures of *Fengyun Daily*, Xia Yu had no intention of keeping it a secret.
He knew that almost all newspaper companies were paying close attention to *Fengyun Daily* and that it would be impossible to hide the news.
Moreover, this wasn't something to be ashamed of; it was a matter of honor, so why should he hide it?
Most importantly, Xia Yu wanted his media industry peers to know about Jiuding News Agency and attribute the success of *Fengyun Daily* to Jiuding News Agency, thereby expanding its influence.
In Xia Yu's view, whether it was the soon-to-hit one million daily sales mark *Jiuding Daily*, the weekly magazine *Economics* with 820,000 copies, or the newly launched *Fengyun Daily*, none of these seemed significant in comparison to Jiuding News Agency!
Xia Yu had long set high expectations for Jiuding News Agency, but he hadn't shared this with Sun Xin or even Yan Wenhan.
Even now, Yan Wenhan and the others likely still saw Jiuding News Agency merely as a news collection and editing platform, mainly serving *Fengyun Daily* and other media.
But was that really the case?
Xia Yu would say that if they thought that way, it was too superficial!
To make a newspaper recognized globally, with readers spread across every country, is extremely challenging!
Is *The Wall Street Journal* impressive? Its daily sales in the U.S. alone exceed two million copies, but what about outside the U.S.? How many countries subscribe to it?
Once influence reaches a certain level, it's constrained by various invisible barriers and ceilings, making further growth difficult.
However, the nature of a news agency is entirely different from that of a newspaper.
The ceiling for news agencies is the highest in the media industry, and their influence has the potential to be the greatest.
In a region, television is the best way to influence people. But which country is willing to let foreign television stations enter its borders?
This very reason makes global television stations impossible to establish, except perhaps with the advent of internet television platforms later on.
Is YouTube impressive? It has a net income of several billion dollars a year and over a billion users, yet it's not available in China!
But news agencies are different. They provide news and cannot prevent domestic media from citing their news or reporting related stories.
As long as a newspaper cites their news, it must acknowledge the source, thus demonstrating influence through that newspaper.
What if there are ten newspapers?
What if there are one hundred?
If it reaches the level of a top global news agency, where a single piece of news is cited by countless media, the impact would cover every corner of the world. As long as Xia Yu controls Jiuding News Agency, anyone who wants to challenge him must seriously consider whether they can withstand his fierce counterattack!
This is the key to ensuring the enduring power and influence of a family and its forces!
This is the foundation of a family's legacy!
Newspapers like *Jiuding Daily* and *Fengyun Daily* can protect Xia Yu in Hong Kong and may cover Southeast Asia, though with diminishing effect.
But what about countries and regions beyond this? *Jiuding Daily* and *Fengyun Daily* are out of reach, and other countries' forces wouldn't hesitate to act against Xia Yu.
The success or failure of Jiuding News Agency is crucial for ensuring Xia Yu's safety outside of Hong Kong.
The gap between Hong Kong and the rest of the world is enormous!
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The next day, *Fengyun Daily* announced the news that the total sales of the first issue had reached 500,000 copies, a number that left all competitors speechless.
Even though they could guess that with *Jiuding Daily*'s help, which had a daily sales of 940,000 copies, the sales of *Fengyun Daily* wouldn't be poor, they didn't expect it to reach 500,000 copies. Moreover, the sales in Hong Kong and Macau totaled 170,000 copies, surpassing *Sing Tao Daily* and securing the second position.
The first place was held by its sibling, *Jiuding Daily*!
Upon learning these figures, *Sing Tao Daily*'s editor-in-chief, Hu Xian, was speechless for a long time. She stared out at the overcast sky, feeling overwhelmed.
After a long silence, she composed herself and looked back at *Fengyun Daily*, her eyes scanning the newspaper for something.
"Jiuding News Agency!"
"This news is from there, and so is this one, almost all of them!"
"I didn't notice this corner mark yesterday. If *Fengyun Daily* hadn't exposed it directly today, I might still be in the dark."
"Now it seems that the success of *Fengyun Daily* is primarily due to the existence of Jiuding News Agency. According to this article, Jiuding News Agency now has a global news collection network with 400 journalists and is still expanding. If this is true, then Jiuding News Agency's power is tremendous!"
Hu Xian expressed her shock, noting that her entire Star Island News Group had fewer than 200 employees, while Jiuding News Agency alone had 400. The scale was indeed impressive and bold in its expansion.
However, as she thought about it, her brows furrowed. She couldn't understand the purpose of *Fengyun Daily*.
"Why *Fengyun Daily* or Jiuding Newspaper Company, what exactly are they up to? Why expose Jiuding News Agency and publicly encourage major media to purchase their news services? What money can they make from this?"
"By sharing the foundation of *Fengyun Daily* with peers, its advantages will be greatly diminished. I don't believe that stock market guru would make such an unwise decision. There must be something wrong!"
"This might be his scheme, definitely waiting for us somewhere!"
"Could it be that he wants to control us through Jiuding News Agency, dismantle our news collection system, and then cut off our news sources, thus clearing out the competition?"
With this thought, Hu Xian's previously stirring intentions were immediately extinguished.
It was understandable why she suspected Jiuding Newspaper Company's motives; the current situation seemed too bizarre.
Putting herself in Xia Yu's shoes, if she were him, she would definitely further enhance *Fengyun Daily*'s advantages and set up more newspapers, maximizing Jiuding News Agency's role and having several newspapers together capture as much of the newspaper market as possible.
She would never make the decision that Jiuding News Agency had made! Unless she was foolish!
Unfortunately, she had overthought things. Xia Yu didn't have the sinister intentions she imagined.
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