9 Nov 2023獨媒#8625
消費權益新聞報道獎 《大公報》網購報導奪大獎
The Consumer Council held the presentation ceremony for the 23rd Consumer Rights News Reporting Awards today. It was the second consecutive year that the awards were not co-organised with the Hong Kong Journalists Association. This year, 42 news organisations, social media platforms and tertiary institutions submitted a total of 373 entries, the highest number ever. The Grand Prize went to Ta Kung Pao, winner of the Feature Article Award, for its work titled “Online Shopping Made Easy”.
消委會今日舉行第23屆「消費權益新聞報道獎」頒獎禮， 亦是連續第二年未有與記協合辦。今屆有42家新聞機構、社交平台及大專院校提交共373份作品，屬歷年最多，「年度大獎」由「專題特寫獎」得主《大公報》奪得，題為「網購智容易」。
28 Sept 2023集誌社#8420
721 調查｜《鏗鏘集》投訴不成立 通訊局：符合持平、 準確及公正守則
The 2020 RTHK programme “The Pulse: Who Holds the Truth about 721?” investigated the identities of the white-clad men and how the narrative surrounding the Yuen Long 721 attack evolved into one of “violent clashes between white-clad and black-clad people” one year after the incident. The programme was subsequently the subject of complaints. The Communications Authority announced its ruling today (28th), finding that the complaints lacked merit and confirming that the programme complied with the provisions on impartiality, accuracy and fairness under the Television Programme Code. No further action against RTHK was required.
2020 年香港電台節目《鏗鏘集：721誰主真相》，在元朗 721 襲擊事件發生一年後，調查白衣人身分，以及事件論述如何演變成「白衣人與黑衣人的暴力衝突」。節目之後被投訴，通訊事務管理局今日（28日）公布裁決結果，裁定投訴理據不足，確定節目符合《電視節目守則》（守則）中有關持平、準確及公正等條文，無須向港台採進一步行動。
25 Sept 2023法庭線#8410
陳朗昇旺角採訪阻差辦公罪成 判囚5天准保釋候上訴 官指「肆無忌憚」發問
Chan Long-sing, multimedia production director at online media outlet Channel C and chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was arrested in September 2022 while covering an owners’ meeting of Long Ping Estate in Yuen Long at the MacPherson Stadium in Mong Kok after allegedly refusing to show his identity card to police officers. He was convicted of obstructing a police officer in the execution of duty at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Monday (25th).
Magistrate LEUNG Ka-kie rejected Chan’s testimony, saying it was not his genuine belief at the time. Leung also accepted that police had reasonable grounds to stop and search Chan, and said the officer had identified himself at the time of the incident, satisfying the purpose of Chan’s questions. Chan nevertheless continued asking questions, which the magistrate described as “reckless and unreasonable”.
Leung adopted seven days’ imprisonment as the starting point for sentencing and, taking into account Chan’s background and contributions in the media sector, exercised discretion to reduce the sentence by two days. The defence’s application for bail pending appeal was approved. Chan must not leave Hong Kong, must surrender all travel documents and must report to a police station twice a week. Outside court, Chan said the public could see the court’s view and that “justice lies in the hearts of the people”. He expected to be unable to attend overseas conferences, but said this would not affect his work as HKJA chairperson.
The Hong Kong Journalists Association said it was extremely disappointed with the ruling, saying that a journalist who was arrested while conducting an interview and exercising a basic right, and who had done his best to cooperate with the police operation, had subsequently been convicted by the court. It said this “sends a strong signal to the outside world that Hong Kong is using the law as a pretext to target journalists and obstruct news reporting”, and considered it showed that press freedom had “not improved and had even deteriorated”. The Hong Kong Federation of Journalists said in a statement that the ruling demonstrated legal justice and “once again conveyed an important message to society: there is no ‘press freedom’ that is above the law”.
網媒《Channel C》多媒體製作主任、記協主席陳朗昇，2022 年 9 月前往旺角麥花臣場館採訪元朗朗屏邨業主大會時，被指拒向警員出示身份證被捕。他周一（25 日）在西九龍裁判法院被裁定「阻差辦公」罪罪名成立。
裁判官梁嘉琪拒絕接納陳的證供，指並非他當時的真實信念，梁亦接納警員有合理理由截查陳，又指案發時警員已道出身份，達到陳發問目的，惟陳仍繼續詢問，指他「肆無忌憚、不合情理地發問」。
梁以 7 天監禁為量刑起點，考慮陳於傳媒界的背景和貢獻，酌情扣減 2 天。辯方申保釋候上訴獲批准，期間不得離港，並須交出所有旅遊證件，每周 2 天到警署報到。陳在法院外指，公眾可看到法庭的看法，認為「公道自在人心」，預計未能出席海外會議，惟不影響記協主席工作。
記協指對裁決極度遺憾，又指警方拘捕正進行採訪工作、行使基本權利，並盡力配合警方行動的記者，再由法庭定罪，「向外界釋出香港以法律為名，針對新聞工作者，阻撓新聞採訪的強烈訊號。」認為顯示新聞自由「並無改善甚至惡化」。新聞聯則發聲明指，判決彰顯法律公義，「再次向社會傳遞出一個重要信息﹕沒有不守法的『新聞自由』」。
22 Sept 2023獨媒#8402
網站今早一度無法瀏覽 《聞庫》：有文章涉違反著作法現已修復
The website of Ku Wen, which backed up 2 million articles from Apple Daily and 90,000 from Stand News, was briefly inaccessible this morning and displayed the message “Unavailable for legal reasons (451: UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS),” prompting rumours that it had been taken down by law enforcement authorities. Ku Wen told InMedia that the website was taken offline after a report about Miss Asia was reported for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The website has since been restored and is back online.
備份了200萬篇《蘋果》及9萬篇《立場》文章的《聞庫》網站，今早一度無法瀏覽，並顯示「因法律原因無法閱覽（451: UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS）」的信息，引來是否被執法部門下架的傳聞。《聞庫》回覆《獨媒》表示 ，網站因為其中一篇有關亞姐的報道被投訴違反《數位千禧年著作權法》（DMCA），令網站被下架，經修復後網站已重新上線。
7 Sept 2023法庭線#8337
《頭條新聞》被指辱警 通訊局、工會均提上訴 上訴庭9個月內頒決定
In 2020, the Communications Authority ruled that some episodes of RTHK’s ‘Headliner’ denigrated and insulted the police, and issued RTHK a warning. The programme was subsequently taken off the air. The Hong Kong Journalists Association and an RTHK staff union sought judicial review of the decision and partially won their case in the High Court in 2021. The Communications Authority, the RTHK staff union and the Journalists Association subsequently all appealed, and the Court of Appeal heard the case on Wednesday (the 6th).
The Communications Authority argued that the lower court had erred in finding that it was responsible for investigating the accuracy of programme content when handling complaints. It said that ‘Headliner’ had linked doctors not having enough masks with the statement that ‘the police have plenty left over’, which amounted to denigrating and insulting police officers and caused the public to lose trust in the police force.
The union and the Journalists Association argued that the programme’s statement that foot patrols had been cancelled and officers no longer needed to ‘walk the beat’ was exaggerated, but had a factual basis in news reports and targeted the incident concerned rather than police officers as a group. After hearing submissions, the court reserved judgment to be delivered within nine months.
通訊事務管理局 2020 年裁定港台《頭條新聞》有集數污衊、侮辱警方，並向港台發出警告，節目隨後停播。記協與港台工會提司法覆核挑戰決定，2021 年獲高院裁定部分勝訴。通訊局、港台工會與記協其後均提上訴，上訴庭周三（6 日）審理。
通訊局一方認為，原審錯誤裁定局方在處理投訴時，有責任調查節目內容的真確性，而《頭條新聞》將醫生不夠口罩，與「衙差大把有得剩」連繫上，屬污衊及侮辱警員，引致市民不信任警隊。
工會、記協一方則指，節目中「取消徒步巡邏，唔使行咇」說法誇張，但有新聞報道的事實基礎，而且是針對有關事件，非警員群體。法庭聽取陳詞後，押後 9 個月內頒布判詞
21 Jul 2023法庭線#8055
陳朗昇否認採訪時阻差辦公 押後9.25裁決
Ronson Chan, multimedia production director of online media outlet Channel C and chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was arrested last September while covering a homeowners’ meeting of Long Ping Estate in Yuen Long at MacPherson Stadium in Mong Kok. He was accused of refusing to show his identity card to police. Police charged him with one count of obstructing a police officer in the execution of his duty, with an alternative charge of obstructing a public officer. Chan denied both charges. The case concluded with closing submissions at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday (the 21st). In response to the defence’s submission that Chan’s contact with the plain-clothes police officer who stopped him lasted no more than 30 seconds, the prosecution said the court should consider the evidence as a whole and whether the defendant’s conduct constituted obstruction of the officer. The prosecution also said the law does not specify that police officers must repeatedly ask a defendant to produce an identity card, and that the court should consider the defendant’s conduct as a whole from the time the officer stopped Chan until his arrest.
網媒《Channel C》多媒體製作主任、記協主席陳朗昇，去年 9 月在旺角麥花臣場館採訪元朗朗屏邨業主大會期間，被指拒向警員出示身份證被捕。他被警方落案起訴一項「阻差辦公」罪及交替的「阻礙公職人員」罪，陳否認兩項控罪，案件周五（21 日）在西九龍裁判法院作結案陳詞。
針對辯方指陳朗昇與截查的便衣警員之間，接觸不多於 30 秒，控方認為，法庭應考慮整體證據，以及被告的行為是否構成阻撓警員。控方又指，法例沒列明警員需要不斷要求被告出示身份證，法庭應考慮自截查警員接觸陳，直至陳被捕之間的整體行為。
19 Jul 2023光傳媒#8029
秦剛「被消失」24日 SCMP擅刪美籍學者涉秦剛段落
US scholar Philip J. Cunningham complained on Twitter that the South China Morning Post deleted, without notifying him, a paragraph mentioning Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang from a commentary article he wrote on 15 July. “Qin Gang is missing. Not only is he missing from the news cycle in China, but he’s missing from my article!” he wrote. He said editors had the right to shorten an article, but deleting an entire passage about the disappearance of a foreign minister with real power was not purely “editing.”
美籍學者金培力（Philip J. Cunningham）在其Twitter投訴《南華早報》在未曾知會的情況下，擅自刪去他在7月15日一篇評論文章中提及中國外交部長秦剛的段落，「秦剛消失了。他不僅從中國的新聞當中消失，也從我的文章裡消失了！」（Qin Gang is missing. Not only is he missing from the news cycle in China, but he’s missing from my article!）。他認為編輯有權縮短篇幅，但把整段提及一個有實權的外交部長失蹤的文字刪掉就不純粹是「編輯」了。
7 Jul 2023明報#7944
新聞自由指數新低 記協：主因自我審查
The Hong Kong Journalists Association published its latest 《2022 Press Freedom Index Survey Report》. News workers and members of the public surveyed continued to rate press freedom in Hong Kong at low levels, scoring it 25.7 and 41.4 points respectively out of 100—the lowest since the survey began in 2013. Among the index’s 10 subcategories, “having reservations when criticising the central government” received the lowest score, while “self-censorship” was the second-lowest among surveyed news workers (see table). The association said this was the main cause of the index’s decline, and that the low score also reflected the prevalence of the phenomenon.
香港記者協會公布最新《2022年度新聞自由指數調查報告》，受訪新聞從業員及公眾對本港新聞自由評分繼續低位徘徊，分別為25.7及41.4分（滿分100），均為2013年度起有調查以來新低。在指數10個分項當中，「批評中央政府時有顧忌」評分最低，「自我審查」評分則在受訪新聞工作者中第二低（見表），記協稱是導致指數下跌的主因，評分低也反映相關現象普遍。
19 Jun 2023集誌社#7827
港台下架｜網頁清洗逾三千集節目 六四、尊子相關內容「被消失」
The final episode of RTHK’s *Headliner* was broadcast on 19 June 2020. For the past three years, the programme remained available for replay on RTHK’s Podcast One website, but it has recently been removed in its entirety.
The Collective found that RTHK had recently deleted programmes archived on the Podcast One website for years. At least 3,200 episodes were removed, including all episodes of five programmes such as *Headliner*, *City Forum* and *Police Magazine*, with not a single episode remaining. In addition, at least 655 episodes from six programmes, including *Hong Kong Connection* and RTHK Talk Show, were selectively removed. The topics involved content related to June 4, Zun Zi, Audrey Eu and police enforcement.
Several RTHK sources confirmed that the removals occurred intensively over the past three months, but no one explained the reason. The Collective asked RTHK whether the programmes had been “taken down”, when and by whom the decision was made, and why. RTHK only said it would “not comment on arrangements for individual programmes or projects”.
2020 年 6 月 19 日，香港電台《頭條新聞》播出最後一集；過去三年，節目仍能在港台 Podcast One 網頁重溫，惟近期已全數下架。
《集誌社》發現，港台近期刪除 Podcast One 網頁備存多年的節目，最少有 3200 集節目下架，包括《頭條新聞》、《城市論壇》、《警訊》等五個節目，一集不留、全數下架。此外，《鏗鏘集》、《五夜講場》等六個節目，最少有 655 集被選擇性下架，題材涉及六四、尊子、吳靄儀、警方執法等相關內容。
多個港台消息確認，下架事件在最近三個月密集發生，無人解釋原因。 《集誌社》向港台查詢，節目是否「被下架」、何時及由誰決定、原因為何？港台僅指「對個別節目或項目安排不作評論」。
10 Jun 2023VOA#7790
香港獨立記者疑遭國安威嚇不要於抗爭紀念日出外 否則禍及家人
A Hong Kong-based independent journalist said he received a threatening message believed to be from national security authorities on the fourth anniversary of the 2019 anti-extradition protest movement. The sender had information on his entire family and told him not to go out casually on the anniversaries of the two major protest dates in 2019, June 9 and 12.
The journalist, who uses the name “Explosive Head” online, posted a screenshot of the message on his page. It said the sender had the names, identity card numbers and telephone numbers of the journalist, his parents and his two older sisters. The sender told him not to “fool around everywhere” on June 9 and 12, saying that “going up the mountain is dangerous” and that it was unknown who might target him or “invite” his family for tea.
一名在香港的獨立記者指，在2019年“反送中”抗爭運動四周年時收到懷疑是來自國安的恐嚇訊息，對方擁有他全家人的資料，又叫他不要在抗爭的紀念日隨便出外。
該名在網上以“爆炸頭”為名的記者在他的專頁上貼出一張通訊程式截圖，對方擁有他與父母、兩位姊姊的名稱、身份證及電話號碼，說要提提他不要兩個2019年的大型抗爭日子6月9日及12日“周圍亂玩”，稱“上山很危險”，不知道會有甚麼人搞他，或是找他的家人喝茶。
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