Hong Kong Media Outlet Shuts Down Days after Raid on Pro-Democracy Website


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CitizenNews , a crowd-funded website established in 2017 by Hong Kong journalists, announced on Sunday that it will shut down by Tuesday. “Regrettably, the rapid changes in society and worsening environment for media make us unable to achieve our goal fearlessly. Amid this crisis, we have to first make sure everyone on the boat is safe,” CitizenNews said in a statement. The site is one of Hong Kong’s most popular news outlets and has about 800,000 followers on social-media platforms, according to the Agence France-Presse . Some journalists from other outlets shuttered by the government in 2021 had moved to...