The Malaysian Insider
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| Type | Online newspaper |
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| Format | Online |
| Owner(s) | The Edge Media Group |
| Editor | Jahabar Sadiq |
| Founded | 25 February 2008 |
| Ceased publication | 15 March 2016 |
| Headquarters | Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Website | www |
The Malaysian Insider (also known as TMI, The Insider, or Malay Ins Ins) was a popular Malaysian bilingual news site. During its prime, it ranked consistently as one of the 100 most popular websites in the country, in addition to having a strong following in Singapore. In June 2009, Alexa ranked The Insider as the 57th most popular website in Malaysia.Compete.com estimated that almost 19,000 unique visitors visited the website in April 2009.
On 25 February 2016, The Malaysian Insider was blocked by the country's Internet regulatory body, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) on the grounds of national security following continuous publication of defamatory content. The move has been widely perceived by pro-opposition groups as blocking free speech in the country. Following the blocking, the owner of the site decided to shut down the website at midnight on 15 March 2016 citing financial losses incurred by its parent company The Edge Media Group amounting to RM 10 million in the past 20 months since The Malaysian Insider's acquisition.
The Malaysian Insider was established by Png Hong Kwang and Sreedhar Subramaniam in December 2007. Png is a journalist, and Subramaniam is the former Chief Operating Officer of the free-to-air Malaysian TV channel ntv7. A group of businessmen and journalists close to former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi started the news portal as a counter to Malaysiakini, which was deemed unfriendly to the Barisan Nasional (BN). When Abdullah resigned in 2009, BN stopped financing the news agency. After talking to several connections, the news portal's top management re-secured funding with help from a 30-something Penang-born businessman with close ties to the current BN leadership.
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