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Editor-in-Chief/Founder @HKFP - Non-profit, 100% independent impartial news since 2015. Alum: @LeedsUniMedia & @JMSCHKU. Views own. Not leaving. #PressingOn
Oct 25, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
1/ Update: Ex-editor Peter Langan has just received a threat of "further action" from the SCMP via DHL (without a human signature.)
Came within an hour of us publishing... They perhaps wrongly thought we'd publish the series.

SCMP contacted for comment. Image 2/ Anyway: The key line about self-censorship in HK newsrooms - “[I]t seems clear to me that this three-part Xinjiang narrative now faces the dreaded newsroom death by a thousand cuts, or an endless litany of objections and nit-picking to ensure that the story isn’t published.” Image