Japanese Media Headlines: "Waiting for my friends and Apple Daily to return"
[Editor's note: Kinya Fujimoto, deputy editor of the Sankei Shimbun, is the co-winner of the 2020 Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial Prize in Journalism]
Japanese newspaper #SankeiShimbun covered the shutdown of Hongkong's pro-democracy newspaper #AppleDaily extensively.
On the front page of the newspaper on June 24, 2021, the headlining news article was about Apple Daily and was accompanied by a column titled "Waiting for my friends and Apple Daily to return" in Chinese, penned by #KinyaFujimoto, an award-winning journalist.
The article states that Apple Daily was the only newspaper in Hong Kong that criticized the #CCP. The authorities' suppression of the newspaper leads to its suspension and indicates the loss of press freedom in Hong Kong.
The article also tells the story of #JimmyLai, the founder of #NextMedia. Lai escaped from China to Hong Kong and establish the pro-democracy Apple Daily in 1995.
Journalist Kinya Fujimoto recounted how he met with editor-in-chief #RyanLaw for the first time in June 2021. At the time, Law mentioned the difficulties to obtain a journalist visa in China and the CCP's ban from interviewing senior officials in the Chinese government. Fujimoto replied that Sankei experienced the same, then the two smiled bitterly.
Next to the Fujimoto's article, the main news article was published entitled under the headline "Hong Kong's Apple Daily Discontinues".
Kinya Fujimoto pointed out that the newspaper did not describe Apple Daily as an "obsolete", but a "discontinued publication". He believes, "after going through the dark age, the newspaper Apple Daily would be the one announcing Hong Kong's retribution."
Fujimoto wrote, "Apple fell, but I believe that is not the 'final chapter'".
Source: Stand News #Jun24
https://bit.ly/3xfKLHT
#Japan #PressFreedom
[Editor's note: Kinya Fujimoto, deputy editor of the Sankei Shimbun, is the co-winner of the 2020 Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial Prize in Journalism]
Japanese newspaper #SankeiShimbun covered the shutdown of Hongkong's pro-democracy newspaper #AppleDaily extensively.
On the front page of the newspaper on June 24, 2021, the headlining news article was about Apple Daily and was accompanied by a column titled "Waiting for my friends and Apple Daily to return" in Chinese, penned by #KinyaFujimoto, an award-winning journalist.
The article states that Apple Daily was the only newspaper in Hong Kong that criticized the #CCP. The authorities' suppression of the newspaper leads to its suspension and indicates the loss of press freedom in Hong Kong.
The article also tells the story of #JimmyLai, the founder of #NextMedia. Lai escaped from China to Hong Kong and establish the pro-democracy Apple Daily in 1995.
Journalist Kinya Fujimoto recounted how he met with editor-in-chief #RyanLaw for the first time in June 2021. At the time, Law mentioned the difficulties to obtain a journalist visa in China and the CCP's ban from interviewing senior officials in the Chinese government. Fujimoto replied that Sankei experienced the same, then the two smiled bitterly.
Next to the Fujimoto's article, the main news article was published entitled under the headline "Hong Kong's Apple Daily Discontinues".
Kinya Fujimoto pointed out that the newspaper did not describe Apple Daily as an "obsolete", but a "discontinued publication". He believes, "after going through the dark age, the newspaper Apple Daily would be the one announcing Hong Kong's retribution."
Fujimoto wrote, "Apple fell, but I believe that is not the 'final chapter'".
Source: Stand News #Jun24
https://bit.ly/3xfKLHT
#Japan #PressFreedom