Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) is so last month.
It’s only been a few days since HKFP launched as the city’s newest independent news source, but the next “big thing” is already around the corner.
Behold, Hong Kong’s latest respectable journalistic endeavor: FactWire!
On Tuesday, veteran Hong Kong journalist Ng Hiu-tung kicked off a crowdfunding campaign for the project, which had already received HKD166,380 (five percent of the HKD3 million goal) on FringeBacker at press time.
FactWire is billed as the city’s first news agency, and the first news source to venture fully and intrepidly into investigative journalism.
“If Paris has Agence France-Presse, New York has the Associated Press, London has Reuter [sic], why Hong Kong should not have FactWire?” the project description asks, in almost perfect English.
The project also pledges impartiality in its description, emphasising that the site will not receive financial support from investors and advertisers.
Above all, FactWire aspires to be a champion of “serious reporting” in the face of a city where, “shallow and sloppy reporting is rampant just to quench the fast-paced city dwellers’ thirst for instant information”.
We’ve got no idea who they’re referring to.
Photo: Okko Pyykkö
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