HK Magazin to be closed down after 25 years.

Last week I woke up to the news that HK Magazine, irreverent and wry and which gave me my first full-time job in journalism, is to be closed down after 25 years.

Its last issue came out on October 07,2016, leaving former colleagues, friends and many others mourning something that had become beloved.

HK Magazine was one of only a few English-language magazines in Hong Kong and had earned a reputation as fun, independent and free-thinking.

Although it listed the hippest new restaurants, bars and spas, it also reported on issues such as Hong Kong's relationship with mainland China, the staggering income inequality found in the city and LGBT issues, at a time when few mainstream outlets were interested.

HK Magazine was by no means the most influential weekly in town.

It targeted a niche but loyal audience: expatriates and those Hong Kongers with fluent English. Many Chinese-speaking locals with little English would never have heard of it.

HK Magazine was bought by the English-language South China Morning Post in 2013. An SCMP said it now had to shut down because it faced "very challenging market conditions" which were especially dire for English-language lifestyle media.