ABSTRACT
This study has explored the significance of media professionalism and media organisation, the role of the media in political change, and the relationship between the media and a society’s power base, taking as an example the case of Hong Kong. It has adopted a historical political economy approach in its exploration of the Hong Kong press in three significant periods, namely: at the time of colonial rule in the late 1960s; during the political transition in the 1990s; and in the post-handover period in the early 2000s.
