The Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新聞行政人員協會) is a professional association established in 1986, dedicated according to its own description to safeguarding press freedom, enhancing cooperation among members, and maintaining professional standards. Membership comprises senior editorial staff — including chief editors, deputy chief editors, and news editors — from Hong Kong’s major media organizations, and numbered more than 100 at the time of the association’s most recent public membership statement. The association describes its activities as promoting journalism exchanges across “the two shores, Hong Kong and Macau” (兩岸港澳) — a formulation that reflects standard PRC framing of cross-strait relations. According to its own website, the association’s April 2026 40th anniversary dinner was attended by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, the secretary-general of the Central Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, and a deputy commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ office in Hong Kong. Also present were representatives from Taiwan’s China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會), an organization profiled on the website of the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA — the party-led body that serves as the leading instrument of CCP press and journalism control in China, managing the issuance of press cards to all journalists and administering mandatory training in Marxist journalism doctrine. The China Journalism Society was originally founded in Chongqing in March 1941 and revived in Taiwan in 1965, and its profile appears on the ACJA website alongside those of the ACJA’s own member organizations. In November 2025, the association’s executive committee met with Lee specifically to discuss the Policy Address directive on helping local media expand networks beyond Hong Kong. In February 2024, the association submitted recommendations on Article 23 national security legislation. In June 2026, it jointly signed a memorandum of understanding with Khabar Agency (哈巴爾通訊社), Kazakhstan’s state-owned broadcaster, alongside the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (香港報業公會), during a visit to Astana by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu.