Kom Chad Luek

{{Short description|Newspaper in Thailand}} {{Undue weight|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Kom Chad Luek | logo = Komchadluek former musthead.svg | image = Kom Chad Luek Farewell Edition - 8 April 2020.jpg | caption = ''Kom Chad Luek'' last printed edition, 8 April 2020. | type = [[Newspaper#Daily|Daily newspaper]] (2001–2020) | format = [[Broadsheet]] (2001–2020)<br>[[Online newspaper|Online]] (since 2020) | owner = [[Nation Group]] | founder = | president = | editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 2001 | political_position = [[Center-right]], [[Conservatism]] | language = Thai | ceased_publication = 8 April 2020 (print) | publishing_country = Thailand | sister_newspapers = ''[[Krungthep Turakij]]''<br>''[[Post Today]]'' (online-only; since 2022)<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 September 2022 |title=เนชั่น ปิดดีลซื้อ "โพสต์ทูเดย์ – นิวส์เคลียร์" กว่ามูลค่า 59 ล้านบาท |language=Thai |work=[[Post Today]] |url=https://www.posttoday.com/business/stockholder/1534 |access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref><br>{{Interlanguage link|Thansettakij|th|ฐานเศรษฐกิจ}} (Since 2022)<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 November 2022 |title=เนชั่น ทุ่ม 240 ล้าน ซื้อ "ฐานเศรษฐกิจ" เสริมแกร่งธุรกิจสื่อ |url=https://www.komchadluek.net/news/economic/537009 |access-date=1 March 2024 |work=Kom Chad Luek|language=th}}</ref><br>''[[The Nation (Thailand)|The Nation]]'' (online-only) | website = {{URL|komchadluek.net}} }}

'''''Kom Chad Luek''''' ({{langx|th|คมชัดลึก}}, {{rtgs|''Khom Chat Luek''}}, {{IPA|th|kʰōm tɕʰát lɯ́k|pron}}, {{lit.|'sharp, clear, deep'}}) is a mass-circulation [[Thai language|Thai]]-language daily [[newspaper]] launched in 2001 and published in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]], by the [[Nation Group]]. Its circulation is in the 500,000–900,000 range.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Limsamarnphun |first1=Nophakhun |title=New paper aims to tap market's vast potential |url=https://www.nationthailand.com/page.arcview.php3?clid=6&id=50526&usrsess=1 |access-date=9 January 2017 |work=The Nation |date=2001-10-29 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030709090907/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/page.arcview.php3?clid=6&id=50526&usrsess=1 |archive-date= 9 July 2003 }}</ref><ref name="Nation-20161019">{{cite news|last1=Thongtep|first1=Watchiranont|last2=Pratruangkrai|first2=Petchanet|title=Newspapers covering HM's death become collector's items|url=https://www.nationthailand.com/news/business/EconomyAndTourism/30297906|access-date=9 January 2017|work=The Nation|date=2016-10-19|archive-date=2017-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110015250/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/business/EconomyAndTourism/30297906|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Kom Chad Luek'' closed down on 8 April 2020 due to the impact of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand|COVID-19 pandemic]] and the number of newspaper readers' decrease, keeping only the online news reports.<ref>{{cite web|work=Thai PBS|accessdate=2024-03-21|date=2020-04-08|language=thai|title=พิษ COVID-19 ปิดฉาก "คมชัดลึก" ฉบับสุดท้ายอำลาแผง|url=https://www.thaipbs.or.th/news/content/290896}}</ref>

==Controversy== {{main|Nation Group}} ''Kom Chad Luek'' became the target of mass protests after it printed an article on 24 March 2006 that omitted part of a quote by anti-government protest leader [[Sondhi Limthongkul]], with the misquote suggesting Sondhi wanted King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] to abdicate, which was viewed as an [[Thailand#Politics|insult to the king]], or [[Lèse majesté in Thailand|lèse majesté]], which is a crime in Thailand. The paper published a front-page apology on 30 March, begging forgiveness from the king; however, protests in front of the newspaper's offices continued. The paper's editor, Korkhet Chantalertlak, resigned in a show of responsibility, the chief news editor was reassigned, and the paper said it would suspend publication for a total of five days, from 31 March to 2 April and on 8–9 April.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tja.or.th/old/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=91|title=Thai Journalist Association : สมาคมนักข่าวนักหนังสือพิมพ์แห่งประเทศไทย|website=www.tja.or.th|access-date=2020-04-06|archive-date=2020-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621103321/http://www.tja.or.th/old/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=91|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thairath.co.th/content/50096|title=จำคุก นปช. คาราวานคนจน ล้อมเนชั่น|date=30 November 2009|language=thai|work=Thairath}}</ref>

==See also== *[[Media in Thailand]] *[[Nation Group]]

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==External links== *{{official website}} {{Authority control}}

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