About The Pattaya News
About The Pattaya News: an English-language news outlet covering Pattaya, Chonburi and Thailand for visitors, expats and international readers, known for timely local reporting.
The outlet
- What we are: The Pattaya News is a prominent English-language news source for Pattaya and the wider Eastern Seaboard, reporting the region's news for the large international audience with an interest in the area — tourists, the substantial expat community, and Thailand-watchers worldwide;
- What sets local coverage apart: reporting from and about the region with local knowledge and context — the kind of grounded coverage that international aggregators, prone to sensationalising Pattaya, can't match (our companion site covers why context matters);
- The audience we serve: people who live in, visit, do business with, or simply follow Pattaya and Thailand — a genuinely global readership.
Our region
- Pattaya and Chonburi at the core — the city, its districts and its life;
- The Eastern Seaboard — the wider region including the EEC development zone;
- Thailand — national news relevant to our readers, especially where it affects the region, tourism and the foreign community.
How the outlet approaches its work
- Timeliness with care: a fast-moving tourist city produces a steady flow of news, and getting it out quickly matters — but not at the expense of getting it right; see the editorial approach and the fuller editorial standards for how that balance is struck;
- Grounded in the region: reporting from and about Pattaya, rather than parachuting in for a single sensational angle, is what separates a local outlet from the international aggregators that periodically discover the city;
- A clear sense of purpose: the fuller statement of why the outlet exists and what it's trying to achieve lives on the mission and values page.
Part of a longer tradition
English-language coverage of Pattaya has existed in some form for as long as the city has drawn an international audience — the format has shifted from print to digital over time, but the underlying need has not: a reliable, local, English-language source of news for a city that's often misunderstood from a distance. The fuller version of that story is on our story.
Read our news
This hub is about the outlet; the journalism itself lives at thepattayanews.com, updated with the region's news. For standing background and context behind the stories, see our companion Pattaya Explained. For how to keep up, see how to follow us.