Hong Kong Media - Interaction Between Media, State and Civil Society

This book explores the challenges to news professionalism and media autonomy stemming from the state, market pressure, the digitalization of communication, and a polarized civil society in Hong Kong. China is tightening its control over post-handover Hong Kong, which includes press freedom. Harsh market competition, coupled with shifting readership from mainstream media to digital platforms, is squeezing the business viability of media organizations. The polarization of civil society in post-handover Hong Kong had degraded consensual values upon which news professionalism relies. Journalists have had to reorient news professionalism and media power in the midst of state-society tension, market pressure, and the shifting communication mode driven by digitalization. These are the key questions for Hong Kong media. This dynamic intervention will be of interest to journalists, scholars of civil society, and scholars of Asian politics.


Chi Kit Chan (PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014) is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in journalism, media studies, and political communication.
Gary Tang (PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016) is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. His research interests include political communication and social media.
Francis L. F. Lee (PhD, Stanford University, 2003) is Professor and Director at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in the areas of journalism studies, political communication, and media and social movements.