From Channelnewsasia.com:
Many in Hong Kong consider press freedom as a trump card that distinguishes the Special Administrative Region from other Chinese cities. But ten years after the SAR’s handover to China, the role of the media in Hong Kong is changing.
The city has more than 25 Chinese-language dailies and four English-language newspapers. As for television stations, there are five of them, all providing round-the-clock news and information.
Serenade Woo Lai-Wan, Chairperson, Hong Kong Journalists Association, said: “Right now, all the media organisations are owned by the businessmen, unlike the period before 1997. At that time, we still had some newspapers or some media organisations which were owned by intellectual persons rather than businessmen.” [Full Text]
