The Hong Kong revolution is putting journalists to the test. From pepper sprays to police assault because not-distinguishable from students, media crews have repeatedly risked injuries to cover the umbrella movement; but the worst and most difficult challenge is for journalist to go back to their offices and fight with their editors to be able to publish their articles. Besides demonstrating in the same streets occupied, Beijing supporters are also operating on a different frontline: many newsrooms can’t cope with central government pressure and retaliation perspectives, therefore many newspapers and broadcasters prefer to censor themselves justifying their decisions behind the risk of bearing impactful advertising revenues losses. Meanwhile, independent journalists and news websites, such as inmediahk.net, SocREC, USP and Local Press, have issued a joint statement accusing police body to intentionally target reporters in order to intimidate them and bend to Beijing power. For the very same reason they argue that central-government supporters in front of pro-democracy Apple Daily’s headquarters were backed by police who took no action to disperse them and de facto helped them in their obstructionism. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Thursday, 30 October 2014 (Source: Global Voices)