Fiji Times

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Compact
Owner(s)	Motibhai
Founded	4 September 1869
Political alignment	Centre-right
Headquarters	Suva, Fiji
Website	www.fijitimes.com.fj

The Fiji Times is a daily English-language newspaper published in Suva, Fiji. Established in Levuka on 4 September 1869 by George Littleton Griffiths (1844 Woolwich, England - 1908 Suva, Fiji), it is Fiji's oldest newspaper still operating. The newspaper claims to be "The First Newspaper Published In The World Every Day".

The Fiji Times is owned by Mahendra Motibhai Patel, who purchased it from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in 2010. The Fiji Times Limited board is chaired by Ross McDonald (as of 1996), and includes Adi Davila Toganivalu, a businesswoman named on 7 January 2006 to replace Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, a former High Court judge who resigned from the board upon becoming (in 2005) the Vice-President of Fiji. The Company Secretary is Umesh Prasad (since 2004). The former publisher Evan Hannah was forcibly removed from Fiji in 2008 as he was accused by the interim government of meddling in Fijian politics.

An online edition is published, featuring local news, sport and weather.

The Rabuka administration censored the Fiji Times for a while following the first military coup of 14 May 1987. In protest, the newspaper published an edition with large blank spaces, where articles censored by the military would have been placed.

The Fiji Times announced on 5 December 2006, in the wake of the overthrow of the civilian government by the military, that it was suspending publication rather than bow to government censorship. Military officers had visited the premises that evening to prohibit the publication of any "propaganda" in support of the deposed government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. The online edition would be continuing publication as normal, however. Just before midday on 6 December, the military granted permission for the Times to resume publication without censorship.

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