Guilty Verdict for Hong Kong Journalist as Media Faces âFrontal Assaultâ
As China stifles dissent in the city, news outlets have found themselves in the authoritiesâ cross hairs.
Choy Yuk-ling, a producer for Radio Television Hong Kong, was found guilty on Thursday of making false statements to obtain public records for a report that was critical of the police.Credit.Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times
April 22, 2021Updated 6:23 a.m. ET
HONG KONG â Hong Kongâs police chief warned journalists they could be investigated for reporting âfake news.â A newspaper controlled by the Chinese government called for a ban on the cityâs biggest pro-democracy news outlet. Masked men ransacked the offices of a publication critical of Chinaâs Communist Party and smashed its presses.
Mar 17, 2021
As news broke that China was pressuring Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to sell the South China Morning Post, surprised employees pondered the future of Hong Kong’s main English-language daily.
When Hangzhou-based Alibaba bought the SCMP in 2015 for $266 million, it injected much-needed cash into its operations and pledged that the century-old newspaper would retain editorial independence.
While the newspaper has come under steady criticism for a tilt toward Beijing under Alibaba, its journalists closely covered the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong while also publishing diverse opinions and coverage critical of China.
Now fears are growing among some staff members that a Chinese state-owned company could eventually take over from Alibaba and put the newspaper under Beijing’s thumb, according to an employee who asked not to be identified.
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By: Ruhi Soni
On a late evening last September, I stood in a dark hallway on the ninth floor of my building, watching people beg a 15-year-old girl not to jump off the edge of the window on which she was standing. She had been spotted barely half an hour earlier. As she wrestled with and shrieked at the building guard who had been the first to arrive on the spot and was holding on to her tightly (so tightly that she had a red mark on her arm even hours later), she drew a crowd of masked