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Index on Censorship's What the Fuck!? podcast: Hong Kong Free Press' Tom Grundy

Release Date: 12/09/2020

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Index's head of content Jemimah Steinfeld talks to Tom Grundy, the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hong Kong Free Press.

Grundy talks about how Hong Kong has changed since the publication was founded, media freedom in the shadow of China's National Security Law and the challenges that his journalists work under to get the news out with many critics of the Chinese Communist Party being jailed.

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