Photon Media

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光傳媒
Photon Media
TypeOnline news media
Editor-in-chiefShirley Leung
FoundedApril 2023
LanguageChinese
HeadquartersTaiwan
Website photonmedia.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Photon Media is a news website reporting on Hong Kong news abroad. Founded in April 2023 by former Hong Kong journalists including Shirley Leung from Apple Daily . [1] Photon Media is based in Taiwan. [2] [3] The advisory team includes Mark Clifford, former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post ; [4] journalist Ching Cheong; Yi-zheng Joseph Lian, former director of HK Stand News [4] and Josh Rogin from the Washington Post . [5] In August 2025, Shirley Leung and Edward Li announced that Photon Media and the UK-basked Chaser News would merge into the online news outlet Pulse HK. [6]

References

  1. "FEATURE/3 years after Apple Daily's forced closure, journalism passion persists". Central News Agency. 24 June 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  2. "政治压力下离港 记者希望在海外报道港闻". Voice of America (in Chinese). 2023-05-01.
  3. "香港新聞人遠走海外 光傳媒台灣啟航追蹤者破萬". Radio Taiwan International (in Chinese). 2023-04-13.
  4. 1 2 "前蘋果立場記者組《光傳媒》今創刊 立足台灣望為港人發光". Points Media稜角媒體 (in Chinese). 2023-04-11.
  5. Lee, Peter (May 3, 2023). "HKFP Guide: Small Chinese-language media outlets press on as Hong Kong's big names disappear". Hong Kong Free Press .
  6. Li, C. C. (2 August 2025). "Veteran Hong Kong journalists to launch new media outlet with Taiwan branch". Central News Agency. Retrieved 2 August 2025.