Opinion | Hong Kong risks being condemned to its own circle of hell

Chow Chung-yan began his journalistic career at the South China Morning Post and rose to become Executive Editor in 2015. As the SCMP’s second-in-command, he is in charge of the China and US bureaus as well as the political economy, culture, print and digital teams. He has been running the SCMP’s day-to-day news operations since 2011. He led the newsroom’s organisational restructuring, streamlined its production workflows and set up dedicated teams for both the print and digital products to facilitate the newspaper’s digital transformation. He also assembled an award-winning infographics desk and spearheaded the redesign of the newspaper. To strengthen the paper’s international coverage, he established the SCMP’s US operations in 2017 with bureaus in New York and Washington, and subsequently set up offices in Brussels and Nairobi. He has been directing the SCMP’s China coverage since 2007 to build the news outlet into one of the most important sources of information on China for global readers. He initiated the hugely successful Open Questions series for the world’s thought leaders to share their insights on critical global issues. In 2024, he designed and supervised the creation of SCMP Plus, a premium content product that has won a top prize at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Worldwide.