 On 5 April 2016, Alibaba Group acquired the media properties of the SCMP Group, including the "SCMP".In January 2017, former Digg CEO Gary Liu became the "SCMP"'s chief executive officer.Anti-Qing revolutionary Tse Tsan-tai and British journalist Alfred Cunningham founded the "South China Morning Post" in 1903, publishing the first issue on 6 November 1903.