June 30 marks the first anniversary of Beijing’s promulgation of Hong Kong’s new national security law. While containing assurances that human rights and press freedom would be protected, the NSL amounted to the single most significant shift in the territory’s legal order since its return to China, and heralded a year of unprecedented incursions into Hong Kong’s media freedoms. Our roundtable of academic experts will attempt to make sense of the tectonic shifts in Hong Kong’s media environment, placing the tumultuous events of recent months in a broader political and global context, and contemplating how journalists and their publics might adapt to — and shape — the emerging media and communication terrain.
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