Citizen News or CitizenNews (Chinese: 眾新聞) was an online news website based in Hong Kong. The platform was launched on 1 January 2017 and shut down on 4 January 2022 amid a government crackdown on news media. Citizen News was established in 2017 following a successful crowdfunding campaign. Citizen News was founded by 10 veteran journalists, including Ming Pao former editor-in-chief Kevin Lau and former HKJA chairperson Daisy Li. They expressed concern on the worsening freedom of press in Hong Kong at that time, and hoped to start a new platform to secure jornalistic professionalism. Citizen News relied on public donations to sustain operation and growth. More information...
According to PR-model, hkcnews.com is ranked 16,624th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 641st in Chinese Wikipedia.
The website is placed before lenobl.ru and after fijisun.com.fj in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.