Stand News

Stand News (Chinese: 立場新聞) is a free, not-for-profit online news website based in Hong Kong, founded in December 2014 as the successor of House News. It primarily focuses on social and political issues in Hong Kong, generally supporting pro-democracy factions.

Stand News
Type of site
News
Available inTraditional Chinese
Headquarters
Hong Kong
OwnerBest Pencil (Hong Kong) Ltd.
URLthestandnews.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationNone
Launched30 December 2014 (2014-12-30)
Current statusActive
Stand News
Traditional Chinese立場新聞
Simplified Chinese立场新闻

Stand News was ranked highest in credibility among online news media in Hong Kong in two public opinion surveys conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016 and 2019.[1][2]

Background

Stand News was founded after the closure of House News in July 2014. Instead of running the website as a limited company like House News, the owner company of the website, Best Pencil (Hong Kong) Limited, is legally managed by a trust company, while prohibiting any transfer of shares.[3]

Following the forced closure of Apple Daily on 24 June 2021, the organisation announced precautionary measures, citing "security concerns". While it vowed to continue publishing, it said that it would pre-emptively take off line all non-news items, such as commentaries and op-eds. Stating that giving their current finances would allow operations to continue for 9 to 12 months, they would cease to accept sponsorships or subscriptions to prevent money "going to waste". Six of the board’s eight members resigned."[4] [5]

The organisation also participated in the Pandora Papers leaks in October 2021.[6]

Incidents
The moment that Gwyneth Ho, a female journalist of Stand News, was attacked[7] in Yuen Long.

On 24 August 2018, former Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying filed for defamation against university professor Chung Kim-wah and Stand News in the High Court, alleging that an article in the website falsely associated Leung with the triads.[8][9] The article had reported a dinner between Leung's aides and alleged triad members. Chung Kim-wah refused to retract the article, while Stand News chief editor Chung Pui-kuen stated that he did not believe that the article defamed Leung, and extended Leung the right to reply.[10]

Incidents during the 2019 Hong Kong protests

During the Yuen Long attack on 21 July 2019, Stand News reporter Gwyneth Ho was attacked by triad members while live-streaming the attack. When the assailants were attacking commuters in the train station, some of them turned on Ho, who was knocked over and hit by sticks and wooden batons while she continued filming.[11] Ho was taken to the hospital, where she received treatment for her injuries and was given stitches.[12]

In 20 December 2019, while he was reporting a shooting incident in Jade Plaza in Tai Po, a Stand News reporter's hands and mobile phone were clubbed repeatedly by a policeman; other reporters were pepper sprayed. Hong Kong Journalists Association condemned the attack and intentional provocation by the Hong Kong Police.[13][14] Senior journalist Yau Ching-Yuen alleged that the police might have known that the victim reporter was working for the Stand News and thus intentionally aimed at the reporter.[15]

On 24 December 2019, a reporter of Stand News was attacked by the police using pepper spray. The reporter, armed with recording equipment, was reporting a conflict between the police and civilians in Mong Kok at that time.[16]

Editors-in-Chief
  1. Chung Pui-kuen and Yu Ka-fai (December 2014 to April 2018)
  2. Chung Pui-kuen (April 2018 to November 2021)
  3. Patrick Lam (November 2021 to present); interim

See also

References
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  2. Centre for Communication and Public Opinion Survey (2019). "Tracking Research: Public Evaluation on Media Credibility – Survey Results" (PDF). The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  3. Lam, Apple (2014-12-18). "House News founder Tony Tsoi forms new company Best Pencil". Marketing Interactive. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  4. "立場新聞-公告". Archived from the original on 2021-06-27. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  5. "Hong Kong police arrest senior Apple Daily journalist at airport". the Guardian. 2021-06-28.
  6. Shiel, Fergus (2021-10-04). "About the Pandora Papers". ICIJ. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  7. "證據確鑿 – 小牛農場負責人陳志祥襲擊立場記者". Archived from the original on 2019-08-17. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  8. Chan, Holmes (2018-08-24). "Ex-leader CY Leung sues Stand News and university professor for defamation". Hong Kong Free Press. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  9. Cheng, Kris (2018-08-16). "Ex-chief exec. CY Leung sends legal letters demanding Stand News and scholar retract article". Hong Kong Free Press. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  10. "CY Leung files libel suit against professor and online news portal". South China Morning Post. 2018-08-24. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  11. "Hong Kong journalist live streams being attacked at train station". CNA. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  12. "元朗惡煞群毆記者市民 《立場》記者雙手、右肩、背部受傷 需留院觀察 | 立場報道" [Yuen Long gang fights reporters and citizens of "Position" reporters injured both hands, right shoulder and back and need to stay in hospital for observation]. Stand News (in Chinese). Hong Kong. 2019-07-22. Archived from the original on 2019-07-21. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  13. "記協批警方敲打《立場》記者手部及手機 予以強烈譴責" (in Chinese). Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  14. "警員用警棍連打《立場》記者手機 江永祥：敲". post852.com (in Chinese). 2019-12-23. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  15. "《立場》記者被警棍打手 游清源質疑警方針對｜website=www.post852.com". 852郵報 (in Chinese). 2019-12-23. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  16. "【不平安夜】催淚煙彌漫、汽油彈再現、黑衣男墮樓、百人和你 Shop 被捕 | 立場報道". Stand News (in Chinese). Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 2019-12-25. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
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