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Important story from @hkfp: "The list of closed platforms also includes Citizen News. But a number of small-scale local Chinese-language outlets are still telling the stories of #HongKong in an independent voice." hongkongfp.com/2022/05/09/exp…

“[A]lthough the environment changed, most of us have remained in our position and try our best to find the truth for the Hong Kong community,” said Ronson Chan, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.

Founded by “a small group of former Apple Daily employees” on July 21 last year, Channel C HK has won more than 200,000 subscribers on YouTube, over 185,000 Instagram followers and nearly 80,000 likes on Facebook in just nine months.

Journalist Kwan Chun-hoi founded the outlet in July 2019 amid the anti-extradition bill protests and unrest, with a focus on detailed and coherent feature stories about the city.

Hong Kong Feature had a physical bookstore at Mong Kok which doubled as its offices until it closed on January 23. Early this year the outlet announced its transition to a subscription-based model and started publishing a monthly magazine for paying readers.

The Photographic Society Hong Kong (PSHK) was also established in July 2019 in the midst of the citywide protests. It specialises in photojournalism and video production while also covering daily news.

Lam Yin-pong, a reporter and then an assignment editor at Stand News, set up his “one-man-band” platform ReNews on Facebook and Instagram on April 19.

In a launch statement, Lam said that while the content would centre on news, he would also occasionally publish interviews and feature stories.

A group of former employees from Apple Daily’s supplement section founded the platform Mill Milk on October 13 last year. They produce community feature stories as well as different entertainment shows and publish daily on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

Rice Zi was set up last July by another team of former Apple Daily supplement creators. It specialises in community news, feature stories and interviews while also producing content on food and drink.

United Social Press was established in 2013 but ceased operations in 2017. After the anti-extradition protests broke out in June 2019, it resumed reporting with a focus on photography and video coverage of the social movement.

Aside from joining existing outlets or creating new information platforms, some local journalists chose to publish through their own social media accounts.

Examples include Alvin Chan, a former principal reporter with Apple Daily’s interviews team who now focuses on court reporting and daily news; Leung Ka-lai, another ex-Apple Daily journalist who mainly tells the stories of 2019 protesters released from prison or facing trial;

and Ingrid Tse, who started publishing original reports after experiencing first-hand the mass resignations at iCable and the shutdown of Apple Daily and Citizen News.

“[I] have only walked the path as a journalist for a few years, [I] have to carry on with what I like,” Tse wrote on her Facebook page.