Event Coverage Highlight
Maintaining The Hong Kong Connection
Come raise a glass and meet Hong Kong journalists who are on a study mission to the United States to learn how to maintain their vibrancy and operating freedom in view of the challenges they face.
Photo: Lo Ka Fai/China Photos/Getty Images)
Senior journalists, editors and producers from Commercial Radio News, Hong Kong News-Expo, nowTV Business News Channel, Sing Tao, the South China Morning Post, Phoenix InfoNews, Hong Kong Economic Times, TVB, RTHK, Ta Kung Pao, and Newspage Communications are part of the delegation, along with journalism professors from Hong Kong.
The 20 visitors are affiliated with the Journalism Education Foundation, which was jointly set up by the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association. It seeks to train journalists, raise public awareness of the importance of a vibrant media, and deepen connections between Hong Kong and American journalism organizations.
Please join Bill Holstein, Minky Worden, Yvonne Dunleavy, Audrey and Seymour Topping, Jaime FlorCruz, Pete Engardio, Rose Tang, Rebecca Fannin, Edith Moy and Stacy Mosher at the event.
Organizers include Patricia Kranz, executive director of the Overseas Press Club of America, and Jane Reilly, executive director of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office of New York is sponsoring the event.
