8:30-9:30am Press Freedom

8:30-9:00am Phone: Chris Yeung, Chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association 

8:30-9:00am Phone: Keith Richburg, President, Foreign Correspondents' Club; Director and Professor of Practice, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong 

9am-9:15am Phone Eugene Chan, former chairman of RTHK's board of advisers 

9-9:30am Phone Mark Pinkstone former government chief information officer 



On Wednesday's Backchat, press freedom in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Journalists Association warned on Monday that although media workers have never been more pessimistic about press freedom in the territory, the worst is yet to come.

Perceived levels of press freedom among Hong Kong journalists have crashed to the lowest on record according to the association's latest survey on the issue, with 85 percent of the more than 360 respondents blaming the SAR government.

99 per cent agreed the prosecution of RTHK contributor Bao Choy Yuk-ling was harmful to press freedom.

Meanwhile on Monday, RTHK began deleting some of its documentaries and other pro-grammes from YouTube, and outraging many people who see the move as an attempt to erase the public's memories in order to rewrite history.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has insisted that there is no "new role" for RTHK and it is still Hong Kong's public broadcaster, amid fears the station is being transformed into a govern-ment mouthpiece.

Are you concerned that press freedom, guaranteed in the Basic Law under Article 27, is declining?