23 Sept 2024集誌社#4069
曾拍下黎智英被囚照片 美聯社攝影記者 申工作簽證、入境香港均被拒
Ming Pao reported that a French AP photographer based in Hong Kong who had photographed Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai in prison was earlier denied a work visa. When the photographer returned to Hong Kong in mid-September, he was denied entry at the airport. In response to inquiries from The Collective, the Immigration Department said it did not comment on individual cases and handled each case in accordance with relevant laws and policies. The Hong Kong Press Photographers Association said it was concerned that one of its members had been denied entry, but could not provide details out of respect for the person’s wishes.
據《明報》報道，美聯社一名曾拍攝壹傳媒創辦人黎智英在囚照片的駐香港的法籍攝影記者，較早前申請工作簽證被拒，該攝影記者在九月中再來香港，在機場被拒入境。《集誌社》向入境處查詢，入境處回覆指，不評論個別個案，會按相關法律和政策，處理每宗個案。香港攝影記者協會表示，關注有有會員被拒入境，為尊重相關人士意願，未能提供詳情。
19 Sept 2024獨媒#4056
數十記者及家人被起底滋擾 私隱公署指收1宗投訴 鍾麗玲稱嚴肅跟進
The Hong Kong Journalists Association released a survey last week indicating that dozens of journalists and their family members had been harassed, including through illegal doxxing, the publication of information without consent, and even the sending of personal data to neighbours and companies where family members worked. Asked how the matter would be followed up, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung Lai-ling said the office had so far received one complaint but that it was not in a position to comment. She said that, generally speaking, cases involving criminal elements would be referred to the police. She also urged anyone who suspected that their data had been infringed to contact the office if they had preliminary evidence, saying it would follow up the matter seriously.
記協上周發布調查，指數十名記者和家人遭滋擾，例如被人非法起底、資料未經同意發布，甚至將個人資料寄去鄰居和家人任職的公司。私隱專員鍾麗玲被問及如何跟進，她表示公署至今接獲1宗投訴，惟不便評論，一般而言若涉及刑事成份會交警方處理。她又呼籲任何人懷疑資料受侵犯，若有初步證據可以聯絡公署，稱會嚴肅跟進。
19 Sept 2024光傳媒#4058
深度｜傳媒機構「聯同」警方做民調、出報道 資深傳媒工作者憂削媒體公信力 學者質疑合作模式欠透明度
Sing Tao Daily ran a front-page report on the 16th headlined “Hong Kong faces ambushes on all sides: Nine in 10 respondents have encountered scams”. The newspaper collaborated with the police on a “Hong Kong People’s Anti-Scam Awareness Questionnaire Survey” and published follow-up reports. In addition to the main report on the survey findings, there were two accompanying stories: one interviewing a police clinical psychologist about scammers’ “devious tactics”, and another reporting that the police’s anti-scam app had been downloaded 570,000 times. A media worker who previously worked for the newspaper told Light Media that the collaboration model created a poor impression and conflicted with the media’s role. Li Lap-fung, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, said the collaboration model lacked transparency: the content relied entirely on information provided by the police, with no interviews presenting other perspectives, raising questions about the media’s independence.
《星島日報》日前（16日）頭條報道「港十面埋『伏』九成受訪市民曾遇『騙』」，該報聯同警方進行「港人防騙意識問卷調查」，並進行跟進報道，除關於調查結果的主稿，另有兩篇配稿，包括訪問警察臨床心理學家解釋騙徒「蠱惑招數」以及警方「防騙APP」57萬次下載量的報道。曾任職該報的傳媒工作者向《光傳媒》表示，這種合作模式令外界觀感不好，跟傳媒角色存在衝突。中文大學新聞與傳播學院教授李立峯分析，報道的合作模式欠缺透明度，內容完全依照警方提供資料、沒有其他角度的訪問，媒體的獨立性受質疑。
17 Sept 2024追新聞#4053
《追新聞》遭國家級黑客攻擊 學者：掌握這樣的資源無幾多人做到
Hong Kong journalists have recently faced large-scale doxxing and threats on an unprecedentedly brazen scale, with the white terror extending to diaspora media overseas. Chasing News, which is based in the United Kingdom, recently received a notification from Google that its company email had been targeted in an attempted intrusion by “state-level hackers” (Government-backed attacks). The Chasing News team strongly condemned the conduct. Scholar Chung Kim-wah said journalism had become a high-risk profession and that “not many people could do it” with such extensive resources to conduct attacks and doxxing.
香港新聞工作者近日遭大規模起底與恐嚇，猖狂程度前所未見，白色恐怖更蔓延到海外的離散媒體。以英國為基地的《追新聞》近日收到Google通知，公司電郵被「國家級黑客」（Government-backed attacks）試圖入侵。《追新聞》團隊強烈譴責有關行為。學者鍾劍華表示新聞工作已成為高危行業，能掌握如此龐大資源進行攻擊及起底，「無幾多人做得到」。
16 Sept 2024獨媒#4051
有自由身記者指連月遭受滋擾 家人任職公司內聯網收抹黑電郵
The Hong Kong Journalists Association announced a survey last week indicating that dozens of journalists and their family members faced varying degrees of harassment between June and August this year. Freelance journalist Ah Kui, who was among those harassed, said on a Commercial Radio programme this morning that the harassment had continued almost daily since June. At first, Ah Kui received more than 20 nuisance calls a day from people claiming to be National Security Department officers and demanding that Ah Kui immediately stop the reporting work underway. Neighbours later also received harassing letters, while the intranets of organisations where Ah Kui’s siblings worked received harassing and smear emails. Ah Kui believed the purpose of those responsible was to make journalists feel that they were a burden and carried an original sin, and that working in journalism would cause people around them to suffer, so that journalists would “know the difficulties and withdraw.”
記協上周公布調查，指今年6月至8月期間，有多達數十名記者和家人遭受不同程度滋擾。有份遭受滋擾的自由身記者「阿葵」今早在商台節目表示，由6月開始幾乎每日被持續滋擾，最初是每日收到廿多個騷擾電話，對方自稱是國安處人員，要求「阿葵」立即停止手上的報導。其後連鄰居也收到滋擾信，甚至連兄弟姊妹所屬的機構內聯網，都收到滋擾和抹黑電郵。他認為發出滋擾的人，目的是讓記者感到是負累、原罪，從事新聞工作會令身邊人牽連受苦，目的令記者「知難而退」。
14 Sept 2024Channel C#4049
鄭嘉如嘆新聞自由衰落：的確有啲嘢唔可以寫 HKFP證創辦人業主接恐嚇信
Hong Kong Journalists Association chairperson Cheng Ka-yu said yesterday (13th) that dozens of cases had been reported in the past few months involving journalists or their family members being threatened. Discussing press freedom in Hong Kong, Cheng said frankly that the industry’s atmosphere was less free than in the past: “There are things that cannot be covered, cannot be written about and cannot be reported now.” Customs issued a statement in the evening to clarify that it did not collect passengers’ telephone numbers during routine clearance procedures and attached great importance to personal privacy. Under Secretary for Security Michael Hau Yip Cheuk said that anyone who was threatened, insulted or harassed could report the matter to law enforcement agencies, and said he did not understand the HKJA’s concern that a government database had been leaked.
香港記者協會主席鄭嘉如昨日（13日）透露，過去數月接獲數十宗記者或其家人遭恐嚇的個案。鄭嘉如談及香港新聞自由，直言業內氣氛不如昔日自由，「有啲嘢而家唔可以採訪、唔可以寫、唔可以報道」。海關晚上發稿表示嚴正澄清，稱進行一般清關工作時不會收集旅客手機號碼，非常重視個人私隱。保安局副局長卓孝業稱，若任何人受威嚇、侮辱或騷擾，可向執法部門舉報，又對記協憂慮政府資料庫洩漏的說法表不解。
13 Sept 2024集誌社#4041
滋擾記者｜記協、獨媒等15 機構 記者及家人收恐嚇信 記協憂政府管有資料遭洩漏
The Hong Kong Journalists Association held a press conference today to give an account of harassment incidents targeting journalists in recent months and a related investigation. The investigation found that at least 13 media organisations, the HKJA and two journalism education institutions, involving several dozen people including journalists, their family members, or their family members’ employers, landlords or partner organisations, had been subjected to various forms of harassment and threats. Complaints were sent to the home addresses of some people or the workplaces of their family members, while at least 36 people were publicly named online and accused of working illegally; some faced violent threats.
The HKJA strongly condemned attempts to obstruct and intimidate journalists from carrying out their work through threats and harassment. It said it believed the conduct was not directed at individual journalists but systematically targeted the journalist community. The HKJA was concerned that personal data held in government databases had been leaked. The HKJA and at least three journalists had reported the matter to the police, while two journalists had lodged complaints with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, and it called on law enforcement agencies to investigate.
Under Secretary for Security Michael Hau Yip Cheuk responded that Hong Kong is a society governed by the rule of law and no one should be threatened or harassed. He also said there had so far been no report of a leak from government databases, adding, “I don’t know why the HKJA has made this allegation.” Hong Kong Customs issued a serious clarification in the evening, saying that it monitored and inspected inbound and outbound passengers and others through risk assessment and intelligence analysis. It said personal mobile phone numbers were not collected during customs clearance and stressed that it would ensure all actions complied with the requirements of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.
香港記者協會今召開記者會，交代近月針對記者滋擾事件及相關調查。調查發現，至少 13 間媒體和記協、兩間新聞教育機構，約數十人，包括記者、其家人或家人僱主、業主或合作機構等，受不同方式滋擾和恐嚇，部分人的家庭住址或家人工作地點收到投訴，也有至少 36 人在網上被「點名」指工作違法，部分暴力恐嚇。
記協強烈譴責有人試圖用威脅及滋擾等手段妨礙及嚇退記者工作，相信有關行為非針對個別記者，而是有系統地針對記者群體。記協擔憂政府管有的個人資料庫洩漏，記協和至少三名記者已報警、兩名記者已向私隱專員公署投訴，呼籲執法部門調查。
保安局副局長卓孝業回應事件指，香港是法治社會，任何人不應受威嚇或騷擾，又指暫時無政府資料庫泄漏報告，「唔知道為何記協點解有呢個指控」。香港海關晚上嚴正澄清，指透過風險評估及情報分析，對進出境旅客等進行監控及查驗，進行清關工作時不會收集旅客個人手機號碼，強調會確保任何行動符合私隱條例要求。
13 Sept 2024Channel C#4046
記協指最少 15 記者家人或其僱主被不同方式滋擾及恐嚇 主席鄭嘉如本人及2兩家人亦收到 Meta 維基助查已封一用戶
HKJA chair Cheng Ka-yee said today that large-scale, systematic harassment targeting journalists had been discovered in recent months. The harassment included doxxing the addresses of journalists and their family members, followed by large numbers of complaint letters containing complaints or objectionable content being sent to the workplaces or partner organisations of the journalists or their family members. The names or personal information of at least 36 journalists also appeared in Facebook posts or graphics expressing hatred towards journalists. HKJA earlier complained to Facebook’s parent company Meta and the Wikimedia Foundation. After investigations by the two companies, it was found that one Wikimedia user had used multiple accounts to post journalists’ personal information in Wikimedia articles. The person has since been banned by Wikimedia. HKJA has made an initial identification of the person and has reported the harassment to the police and complained to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data. It does not rule out taking legal action after establishing the person’s user identity.
記協主席鄭嘉如今天表示，近月發現大規模、系統性針對記者的滋擾事件，包括先「起底」記者及其家庭成員的住址，又投寫大量投訴或不容內容的投訴信至記者或其家人的工作機構、合作機構。另外最少有 36 名記者的姓名或個人資料，出現在 facebook 一些仇視記者的帖文或製圖，記協早前向 facebook 母公司 Meta 及維基百科基金會投訴，兩間公司展開調查後，發現一名維基用戶同時以多個帳號，在維基條目張貼記者個人資料，該人現已被維基封禁，記協初步掌握該人士的身份，並已就滋擾事件報警及向個人資料私隱專員公署投訴，不排除掌握其用戶身份後採取法律行動。
12 Sept 2024ReNews#4040
《棱角》陷財困告急 若未能籌集資金 年底將停刊
Liu Zu-di, known by the nickname “Lam Chau Ba” and wanted by Hong Kong police for allegedly endangering national security, spearheaded the founding of online media outlet The Points in January 2023 and serves as its executive director. The outlet said in a post today that it is facing an urgent financial crisis and will cease publication on 31 December if it cannot raise sufficient funds.
被香港警方指涉嫌危害國家安全通緝，綽號「攬炒巴」的劉祖廸，23 年 1 月牽頭創立網上媒體《棱角》，並擔任執行總監，該媒體今日發文稱陷入財困告急，若未能籌得足夠資金，將於 12 月 31 日停刊。
6 Sept 2024Channel C#4028
香港《大紀元時報》印刷廠無法續約 中秋節後停印紙本
Hong Kong’s The Epoch Times announced that it will publish its final issue on the Mid-Autumn Festival. The company explained that its printing plant’s lease had expired and could not be renewed.
The Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times said on its website and social media this afternoon (6th) that, due to the printing plant’s lease expiring without renewal and various other factors, it had “decided to temporarily suspend printing and distribution of the daily newspaper”. Hong Kong’s The Epoch Times will publish its final newspaper issue on the Mid-Autumn Festival, 17 September 2024, while its website will continue to operate.
香港《大紀元時報》宣布，將於中秋節發行最後一期。該公司解釋因為印刷廠租約到期，但無法續約。
《大紀元時報》今午（6日）在官網及社交媒體指「印刷廠租約到期無法續約」及各種因素，已「決定暫時停止印刷和日報報紙的發行」，「香港《大紀元時報》將於2024年9月17日中秋節發行最後一期報紙」，但網站將會繼續運作。
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