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C.K. Lau will take over as editor of the South China Morning Post on February 1, SCMP Group announced yesterday. Mr Lau will succeed Fanny Fung, who has decided to step down. The group said Ms Fung, who joined the newspaper in 2004 as deputy editor and was made editor in 2005, had made numerous and wide-ranging contributions to news coverage and editorial operations.
Mr Lau first joined the Post in the early 1980s and has held various writing and management positions. He is currently the newspaper's executive editor (policy). Mr Lau has also worked for The Australian in Sydney and for the Overseas Chinese Daily and served as chief press information officer of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
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