The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (香港報業公會) is a newspaper industry association established on May 10, 1954, originally founded by four of Hong Kong’s largest newspapers at the time: Kung Sheung Daily News (工商日報), Wah Kiu Yat Po (華僑日報), Sing Tao Daily (星島日報), and the English-language South China Morning Post. It serves as the largest newspaper industry body in Hong Kong, with current membership comprising 14 major newspapers, but has increasingly represented pro-government and pro-Beijing positions. The society organizes the annual Hong Kong Best Journalism Awards. A Lingua Sinica analysis in 2026 found that the Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group (香港大公文匯傂媒集團) — run by the PRC government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong — has ranked first in total awards at the society’s annual journalism competition every year since 2019, a period coinciding with Hong Kong’s broader press freedom contraction following the 2019 protests. As recently as 2016, the awards were distributed across a more diverse field of independent outlets. In May 2023, it hosted a delegation from the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新職工作者協會), or ACJA, a party-led body whose constitution explicitly states it “serves as a bridge between the Party, the Chinese government and the press,” and which functions as a key instrument of CCP press control — managing the issuance of press cards to journalists in China and administering mandatory training in Marxist journalism doctrine. In June 2026, the society jointly signed a memorandum of understanding with Khabar Agency (哈巴爾通訊社), Kazakhstan’s state-owned broadcaster, alongside the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新職行政人員協會), during a visit to Astana by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu that stressed the “telling of the Hong Kong story,” in echo of the CCP’s external propaganda objectives.