Hong Kong News-Expo (HKNE) is housed inside the former Bridges Street Market at No. 2, Bridges Street in Central, Hong Kong Island. The heritage building was among the first batch of public markets built after the end of World War II and was opened in 1953.
The building sits partly on the former site of the American Congregational Mission Preaching Hall, where Dr Sun Yat-sen was baptised in the 1880s. In 2013, under Batch III of the Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme, the Journalism Education Foundation Hong Kong Limited was granted the right to revitalise the property into the first exhibition-cum-education facility in Asia with news as the main theme.
With a total floor area of about 10,000 square feet, Hong Kong News-Expo, opened on 5 December 2018. Its exhibits chronicle the evolution of Hong Kong’s news media, present the city’s political, economic and social transformations through contemporary news reports and demonstrate the importance of the free flow of information as a cornerstone of Hong Kong’s success.
