In recent days, there have been major earthquakes in the media industry. Following the arrest of several current or former senior officials of "Stance News" earlier, and the immediate suspension of operations, Zhong Xin, which was founded by a group of veteran media professionals in 2017, also last night (2 Sunday) Announced at 9:30 a.m. that it will cease operations on January 4 (Tuesday), the website will no longer be updated, and will be closed after a period of time.
"Zhongxin" chief writer Yang Jianxing and chief editor Li Yuehua met with the media at 11 am today (3rd) to explain the suspension.
A few days ago, at least 6 directors and senior executives of "Stance News" were arrested for "conspiracy to publish seditious publications" and immediately ceased operations. Yesterday (2nd), another online media "Zhongxin" also announced that it would stop operations tomorrow (4th). .
"Zhong News" was established in 2017 by a senior media person. Today (3rd) the editor-in-chief Li Yuehua and the chief writer Yang Jianxing met with the media.
Yang Jianxing said that the suspension is a short-term decision, and the trigger is precisely the "Stance News" incident. It is impossible to grasp the boundaries of law enforcement. He described that "you can do news with peace of mind" and that the suspension is a helpless decision.
Li Yuehua said that more than 40 employees of "Zhongxin" will all be dismissed in accordance with the law. The website will still be updated today, and the two programs in the evening will also be broadcast.
She said that the operation will be suspended from tomorrow, but the website will not be closed immediately, and the specific date will be decided later.
Zhongxin News announced the closure news at 9:30 pm on January 2 and posted a farewell message on its social page.
Zhongxin posted a post on its Facebook page stating that yesterday, January 2, which happened to be the day after the establishment of New Year's Day in 2017, "we want to say goodbye to everyone" and "5 years, thank you everyone."
After the announcement, the public press office is still in operation.
The article mentioned that at the press conference on the day of establishment, many media "old ghosts" expressed their deep concern about the state of press freedom in Hong Kong, and hoped that the news could inherit the spirit of professional journalism, return to the original aspirations of journalism, and serve the public interest and serve the public. I hope that our small step can encourage the industry to take a small step. Each small step can form a big step in protecting freedom of the press." Then, with extremely limited resources, we will use exclusive news, data news, and personalities. Interviews, investigative reports, in-depth commentaries, court news, China News, and the Voice of the People started reporting.
"Even though our manpower is limited, the news is not enough, and the news is not fast enough, but our entire small team, the old ghosts and the younger generations, are working hard to seek truth and depth in news reports." The news reported that the team had grown from ten to dozens. The team, "From the beginning of the street people's sentence "Zhong News? Don't know you", "Today I heard people say: Everyone News? I have watched."
"Zhong News" was established under the leadership of a group of senior media professionals, and officially started operation on New Year's Day in 2017.
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Zhongxin News announced that it will be suspended from January 4th: During the crisis, everyone on board must be guaranteed to be safe. Deng Bingqiang: Fake news has objective standards, ordinary people understand and criticize public news that mislead the moral issues. Please look back at the content of the question and answer "Zhong News" alleges that Deng Bingqiang refused to guarantee that Article 23 will not be guilty of words. The Security Bureau said it was misleading.
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