TAKEAWAY: This is a newspaper city, and 17 newspapers go out into heavy traffic each day trying to seduce readers. Look for my HK reports this week.
The view outside my window this Monday morning in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s colorful broadsheet: Apple Daily
The Hong Kong newspaper scene is definitely a crowded one——so are the streets and highways of this exciting place with the breathtaking views.
With 17 newspapers out in the streets each day, the Hong Kong story has plenty of journalists echoing it. Like the city itself, these newspapers represent a large variety of styles, but perhaps none as colorful as the Apple Daily, a broadsheet that sings the high notes of a happy tabloid—-reminiscent of Germany’s Bild Zeitung.
Only two newspapers are published in English—the South China Morning Post, a classic-styled broadsheet—-and The Standard, which is freely distributed along bus and train routes, as well as in the entrance to the heavily populated ferries.
As my work brings me here this week, I shall report on my observations and findings.
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