Aware of it or not, most everyone who rode the Hong Kong midlevels escalator in the past few years probably knows of Andy. He was a constant presence near them with his suit, lime green tie, matching step stool and microphone.

On World Press Freedom Day I’d like to share this obituary I wrote about my friend Issam Abdallah— a brilliant videographer for Reuters. He was targeted and killed in South Lebanon on October 13 by Israeli fire: nytimes.com/2023/12/03/opi…

[Recap] On Press Freedom Day, HKFP appeals for support as our team navigates one of the world's most challenging, rapidly-changing media environments.

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Don't obey in advance.

Yesterday I counted that Google has 27 lawyers in the room for closing arguments. At standard big law firm billing rates, that's $50k per hour just for sitting in the courtroom. Burning money...

This #WorldPressFreedomDay , Maria Ressa's words underscore the urgent need to protect the information ecosystem. “2024 is a year where if we do not get the right solutions in place globally for a very corrupted information ecosystem, we will not have the integrity of elections.”

It's World Press Freedom Day. And nobody deserves our respect, solidarity and admiration today more than the brave and determined journalists of Gaza. We would be blind without them and they are the best of us.

Our chair Lennon Chang shares #Taiwan 's efforts to improve #CyberSecurity – calling for new laws that address cyberwarfare as separate to cybercrime – against CCP-originated attacks. Despite such #GreyZoneWarfare tactics, Taiwan's resilience endures. theconversation.com/taiwan-is-expe…

Palestinian journalists covering Gaza awarded the 2024 UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 / Guillermo Cano World #PressFreedom Prize.

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Please consider supporting #PressFreedom today for #WPFD . And click here to ask your friends to support CPJ as well: ctt.ac/bdWs1

Marking a somber World Press Freedom Day this year. Remembering all the valiant journalists struggling and dying to tell the story, especially in Gaza.

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Taiwan's wealth gap is now even worse than Hong Kong's, with the wealthiest 20% of households holding 67 times more wealth than the bottom 20%. In HK, that number is 57 times.

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Police fire multiple impact munitions at protestors. 4:38am

Israel destroyed all the universities in Gaza.