We cover the harbour the way you'd read it if you lived on it.
NewsHK was founded on a simple bet: that the Asia-Pacific deserves a paper as serious about its markets as it is about its politics — reported from inside the region, in the languages the region actually speaks.
Founded at a marked-up desk, not in a boardroom.
Founded 2019 · Central, Hong Kong · Reader-owned, ad-supported
NewsHK began in 2019 with a handful of correspondents who were tired of choosing between the wire's speed and the broadsheet's depth. They wanted both — and a reader who expected both.
Today the newsroom files daily from Central, Admiralty and the ports that move the region's trade, with stringers across the Asia-Pacific. The brief has not changed: explain power and money in this part of the world with precision, independence and a long memory.
Our mission is narrow on purpose. Cover Hong Kong and its neighbours as a market, a polity and a place — not a headline. Hold the institutions that move capital and policy to a standard the rest of the press has stopped enforcing. Write for the reader who has to make a decision by Monday morning.
2019
Founded
6
Bureaux
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The four rules that never move
Accuracy before speed
We would rather be second and right than first and wrong. Every claim is sourced; every correction is logged in the open.
Sources are protected
Confidential sources are exactly that. We use encrypted channels and we honour off-the-record agreements without exception.
No hidden interests
Reporters disclose holdings. Commercial partnerships never touch the editorial desk. The wall is real and it is load-bearing.
Context is the story
A number without its history misleads. We report the figure, then the forces — political, financial, historical — that produced it.
The bylines you'll come to trust
Wai-Lam Cheung
Editor-in-Chief
Newsroom · Standards · The front page
Mei-Ling Cho
Markets Desk Editor
Currency · Listings · Capital flows
Daniel Au-Yeung
Chief Political Correspondent
LegCo · Liaison Office · Policy
Priya Raman
Business Editor
Conglomerates · Energy · Succession
Tomás Reyes
Asia-Pacific Correspondent
Maritime · ASEAN · Security
Nadia Suleiman
Capital Markets Reporter
IPOs · Funds · Sovereign money
“Report it as if your reader is in the room — because, often, they are.”
The NewsHK style note, pinned above every desk
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