{"id":41933,"date":"2022-02-24T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/ronson-chan-the-former-hong-kong-editor-who-is-now-a-delivery-driver"},"modified":"2022-02-24T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:00:07","slug":"ronson-chan-the-former-hong-kong-editor-who-is-now-a-delivery-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41933","title":{"rendered":"Ronson Chan: the former Hong Kong editor who is now a delivery driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journalist\u2019s career was dramatically paused when Stand News was raided \u2013 and now he is in limbo<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago Ronson Chan was working as deputy assignment editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/hong-kong-police-arrest-six-journalists-from-independent-media-outlet-stand-news\">Stand News<\/a>, one of Hong Kong\u2019s independent and pro-democracy news sites. His job involved assigning news stories to the team of reporters, helping set the editorial agenda and running the outlet\u2019s social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>As head of the Hong Kong Journalism Association he had seen up close the fallout from the Beijing media crackdown \u2013 closures, arrests, the offshoring of international bureaus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/ronson-chan-the-former-hong-kong-editor-who-is-now-a-delivery-driver\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journalist\u2019s career was dramatically paused when Stand News was raided \u2013 and now he is in limboThree months ago Ronson Chan was working as deputy assignment editor at Stand News, one of Hong Kong\u2019s independent and pro-democracy news sites. His job &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,238,671,672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41934,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41933\/revisions\/41934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}