3 Dec 2025集誌社#7629
陳文敏告別《明報》專欄：知道這一天總會來臨
Johannes Chan, former Chair Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, today said farewell to the Ming Pao column he had written for nearly 23 years. In an article titled “Farewell” in his column “Legal and Political Essays”, he said it was his final article for the column. He did not explain the reason for the farewell, but said, “I knew this day would eventually come; being able to write until today is actually no small achievement,” and apologised to his editorial colleagues for the “pressure and worries” he had brought them. A review of records shows that multiple government departments had repeatedly written to Ming Pao to rebut and even condemn Chan’s commentaries.
香港大學前公法講座教授陳文敏，今「告別」撰寫了近 23 年的《明報》專欄。他今在專欄「法政隨筆」中， 發表題為《告別》的文章，指是在專欄最後一篇文章。他沒有解釋「告別」原因，但指「知道這一天總會來臨，能寫到今天其實已經難能可貴」，亦為編輯部同事「帶來的壓力與擔憂致歉」。翻查資料，政府多個部門屢去信《明報》，反駁以至譴責陳文敏的評論文章。
16 Aug 2024獨媒#3913
明報總編致函專欄作家籲下筆須「知所分寸」 黃照達：大家明白壓力喺邊度
Ming Pao Editor-in-Chief Lau Chung-yeung recently wrote to columnists for the newspaper’s Times section, asking them to “help us out” and exercise greater caution in their writing. He stressed that commentary must be based on accurate facts, and that writers must know where to draw the line and comply with the law, “otherwise there is no guarantee that a crisis might not descend one day”. Ming Pao political cartoonist Wong Chiu-tat said on the radio this morning that he fully understood the newspaper’s difficult situation. He considered the newspaper’s supplements to have literary and artistic qualities, while political cartoons were freewheeling creative works that inherently involved “crossing the line”. He also admitted that over the past two years he had avoided drawing on current-affairs and political topics, saying, “Everyone understands where the pressure comes from.”
《明報》總編輯劉頌陽日前致函時代版專欄作者，提到懇求作者「幫我們一把」，下筆時務必多一分謹慎，並強調評論要建基於準確事實，同時要知分寸和守法，「否則難保說不定哪天危機會降臨」。《明報》其中一位專欄漫畫家黃照達今早在電台表示，深明《明報》處境困難，他認為該報的副刊具文學藝術特質，而政治漫畫是天馬行空創作，本身屬「踩界」。他亦坦言近兩年避畫時事政治題材，「大家明白壓力喺邊度」。
4 Dec 2023光傳媒#8746
《明報》終止台灣學者何明修專欄 文題寫「台灣獨立書店的多元化」遭編輯修改
Ho Ming-shiu, a professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University who specialises in Hong Kong social movements, said on Facebook that Ming Pao had recently ended his column. An editor did not give a specific reason in an email, saying only that “many things could not have been foreseen at the beginning”. Ho also disclosed that an earlier article titled “Diversity of Taiwan’s Independent Bookstores” had been changed by the editor, without asking him beforehand, to “Independent Bookstores Operating in Taiwan”. He wrote: “Hong Kong has changed, Taiwan has changed, and the world has changed over these past five-plus years. We are all travellers passing through the same time and space, but we will head in different directions. May God protect Taiwan; may God protect Hong Kong!” According to statistics compiled by Light Media, at least seven Ming Pao columns were ended over the past two years.
專門研究香港社會運動的國立臺灣大學社會學系教授何明修在Facebook透露，其《明報》專欄近日被終止，編輯在電郵未有明言原因，僅稱「很多都是一開始未能預見的」。何明修又披露早前有一篇稿件標題是「台灣獨立書店的多元化」，編輯事先沒有問他，就改成「獨立書店在台經營」，更感慨：「這五年多來，香港變了，台灣變了，世界也變了，我們都是同一批的時空過客，只是會前往不同的方向。天佑台灣，天佑香港！」《光傳媒》統計資料，過去兩年《明報》至少有7個專欄被終止。
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