Blank Columns Protest Ming Pao Editor’s Sacking
Staffs of Ming Pao hold placards with Chinese words " Cannot comprehend " as they gather outside the newspaper's office building Source: – AAP Image/ AP Photo/Apple Daily
The firing last week of a former top editor at Hong Kongs Ming Pao newspaper after the outlet ran a front page story on the Panama Papers stoked long-running concerns about the erosion of press freedom in the semi-autonomous region. The sacking of Keung Kwok-yuen, formerly the number two editor in Ming Paos newsroom, recalled the 2014 removal of Kevin Lau Chun-to from his role as editor-in-chief of Ming Pao after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) collaborated with the paper to release the Offshore Leaks disclosure.Ming Pao was one of many outlets that collaborated with ICIJ on the Panama Papers. At the South China Morning Post, Peace Chiu reports that three columnists protested the sacking by submitting blank columns that made it to print in Sundays issue.Siu Kam Chan has more.
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