Target location: Hong Kong

Jia Mei Finance

Jia Mei Finance is a Chinese-language political, economic, and business media platform, launched in 2020. It focuses on wealth, technology, entrepreneurship, culture, and science, and provides global Chinese audiences with news coverage and analysis sourced from domestic and international mainstream media. Here is their BlueSky page.

Banned Books

Banned Books is an independent, U.S.-based Chinese-language digital media outlet launched in 2011, which focuses on political news, human rights issues, cultural commentary, and content censored in mainland China. Here is their Facebook page.

Tian Jian

Tian Jian is the Chinese-language sister publication of the China Media Project, focusing on global Sinophone media and journalism issues. Published weekly on Tuesdays and free to access, it features interviews, special reports, and newsletters that explore challenges facing the media industry, fostering dialogue and collaboration to strengthen media development.

Border Eyes

Border Eyes is a Chinese-language platform launched in 2024 by Taiwanese journalist Will Yang and a group of exiled Burmese reporters, who saw a gap in Mandarin-language coverage of Myanmar. The platform publishes in-depth reports on Myanmar-related issues that are often ignored by mainstream Chinese-language media. Here is their Facebook page.

RFA Asia Fact-Check Lab

Radio Free Asia (RFA)’s Asia Fact Check Lab is an initiative launched by RFA in 2022 that aims at countering misinformation and disinformation related to China and picking apart false narratives seeded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It features daily fact‑check reports, media‑watch articles, and in‑depth investigations. Due to cuts in its funding by RFA Asia Fact-Check Lab

Vision Times

Vision Times is an independent U.S.-based Chinese-language weekly launched in 2001 that provides in-depth news and analysis on mainland China, Hong Kong, the United States and Taiwan, with a strong focus on Chinese society, politics, culture and history. Available in Chinese, English, Spanish, Japanese, French, and Vietnamese, it aims to inform the world about China’s Vision Times

Wenku

Wenku (Bibliothèque) is a Chinese-language website that aims at preserving Hong Kong’s memory and history. It records Hong Kong’s two major democratic media, Apple Daily and Stand News.

Unknown Little Thunder

This YouTube channel in Chinese is from an American woman discussing current affairs on China, US-China relations and American culture. They support “the liberation of Hong Kong and Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet.”

Stephen Shiu – commentary

This news platform was created by a former Hong Kong journalist and explores current events related to Hong Kong politics and social issues, and world affairs.

Simon’s Glos World

Simon’s Glos World Facebook page and its YouTube channel are run by Simon Shen (沈旭暉), a Hongkonger living in Taiwan who provides commentary and analysis with a global perspective on international relations, social issues, art and culture, lifestyle and travels. His platforms is aiming at the Hong Kong local audience and diaspora.

Sam Ng Chi-sum

Sam Chi-sum Ng is the former producer of “Hong Kong Connection” (《鏗鏘集》) that hosted the “Green Bean” channel (《綠豆》). On his YouTube channel, Sam Ng gives commentary and analysis in Cantonese about Hong Kong current affairs, politics and social issues. This channel aims at the Hong Kong diaspora.

ReNews

This news platform was created by former Hong Kong journalist Andrew Lam (林彥邦). Through commentary and analysis, he explores Hong Kong’s current affairs related to politics, social issues and world affairs.