So... SCMP has trimmed down its newspaper to a bare minimum. The content in the paper is there to simply fill in the gaps left by the ads.
The Standard which seemed to have some amount of local coverage is going to be affected by this.
HKFP is still quite focused on politics and simply does not have the depth to cover local news / business and provide good analysis (not a slam... but they're still a young organisation that has not found its model).
EJ Insight is random...
Hong Kong newspaper lays off 20 staff in cost-cutting move | South China Morning PostSing Tao News Corporation laid off about 20 employees on Wednesday, weeks after it cut or froze their wages in a bid to cut costs.
The move to cut staff has not been officially announced, but employees said individual colleagues had received notices from the group’s human resources department, which had received a list of staff members who were being asked to leave.
The affected staff members come from various departments including the group’s flagship Chinese-language daily Sing Tao Daily and its free English tabloid The Standard, as well as its profitable free Chinese-language tabloid Headline Daily and the weekly magazine East Touch.