Hong Kongers, watching closure of Apple Daily, fear for independent journalism’s future

Hong Kongers were mourning the forced closure of Apple Daily, a populist, sometimes bawdy, always staunchly pro-democracy daily launched as the “Hong Kong people’s newspaper” in 1995, when more bad news dropped for the city’s once-vaunted press freedom. [Read: As Hong Kong’s Apple Daily goes dark, the newspaper’s web, app, and social content disappears too]...