Bryce McIntyre, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract
Hong Kong differs from other geopolitical units in being more like a city-state than a nation. Most of the population is concentrated in densely populated areas of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. However, Hong Kong also has several so-called New Towns that are located in the New Territories, a rural area north of Kowloon. The New Towns have some attributes of suburban communities.
To provide some understanding of suburban journalism in Hong Kong, four experts were interviewed - Dr. Clement So, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Robert Keatley, editor of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's leading English-language newspaper; Prof. Yuen Ying Chan, formerly a reporter for the New York Daily News currently director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong; and Dr. Judith L. Clarke, formerly senior editor at Asiaweek and currently an associate professor in the Department of Journalism at the Hong Kong Baptist University. The interviews took place on separate occasions over a two-week period, and the responses compiled.
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