Overseas Hong Kong media outlets Photon Media and The Chaser News plan merger; RFA and Apple Daily executives join team, details Friday
海外港人媒體《光傳媒》《追新聞》計劃合併 RFA 及蘋果主管加入團隊 周五公布詳情
The overseas Hong Kong media outlets The Chaser News and Photon Media will merge. The Overseas Hong Kong Media Association said on social media yesterday (29 July) that the two outlets will hold a press conference in Taipei on Friday (1 August) to announce plans to establish Chasing Light (PULSE HK). Hu Lik-hon, former head of the Cantonese section at Radio Free Asia, and former head of Hong Kong Apple Daily’s animated news department Felix Ka Chung Lee will join the team. Photon Media was founded in Taiwan in April 2023 by former Hong Kong Apple Daily reporter Carrie Ka Lai Leung. The Chaser News began operating in the United Kingdom in March 2022, with scholar Rick Wai Kwok Wong and the founder of Education Incal, a former manager of the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority’s Assessment Development Department Hans Yeung Wing-yu, serving as directors.
海外港人媒體《追新聞》及《光傳媒》將會合併。「香港海外傳媒協會」昨日（29 日）在社交媒體發文，指兩間媒體將於周五（8 月 1 日）在台北舉行新聞發布會，宣布籌備成立《追光者 PULSE HK》，《自由亞洲電台》前粵語組主任胡力漢，前香港《蘋果日報》動新聞主管李家聰將會加入。 《光傳媒》由前香港《蘋果日報》記者梁嘉麗於 2023 年 4 月在台灣成立，至於《追新聞》於 2022 年 3 月在英國開始營運，由學者黃偉國及《教育刺針》創辦人、考評局評核發展部前經理楊穎宇出任董事。