Daisy Li

{{Short description|Hong Kong journalist}}

{{Family name hatnote|Li|Daisy Li|Li Yuet-Wah|lang=Hong Kong}}

Daisy Li Yuet-Wah ({{Lang-zh|c=李月華}}) is a Hong Kong journalist. She has previously worked for the independent paper Ming Pao, was the former chief executive of the online news division of Taiwan’s Apple Daily News, and was one of the founders and editor-in-chief of Citizen News{{Cite web|last=Voices|first=Global|date=2017-01-05|title=Veteran Hong Kong journalists launch new, non-profit Chinese news site in defence of press freedom|url=https://hongkongfp.com/2017/01/05/veteran-hong-kong-journalists-launch-new-non-profit-chinese-news-site-in-defence-of-press-freedom/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Hong Kong Free Press HKFP|language=en-GB}} until its closure in January 2022.{{Cite web|date=2022-01-04|title=HK’s Citizen News set to close on staff safety fears - Taipei Times|url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2022/01/04/2003770683|access-date=2022-01-17|website=www.taipeitimes.com}} She is also a leader of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association.

In 1994, she won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists.{{cite web|url=http://www.cpj.org/attacks96/frontmatter/ipfa.html |title=Journalists Receive 1996 Press Freedom Awards |year=1996 |publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists |access-date=28 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605095952/https://www.cpj.org/attacks96/frontmatter/ipfa.html |archive-date=5 June 2012 }} An advocate for press freedom, she was critical in 1995 of what she viewed as increasing self-censorship among Hong Kong journalists in anticipation of Hong Kong's 1997 transfer of sovereignty to China.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/19/weekinreview/the-world-get-ready-for-mao-s-heirs-hong-kong-s-press-starts-to-pull-its-punches.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=Get Ready for Mao's Heirs; Hong Kong's Press Starts to Pull Its Punches |author=Edward A. Gargan |date=19 March 1995 |work=The New York Times |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306194617/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/19/weekinreview/the-world-get-ready-for-mao-s-heirs-hong-kong-s-press-starts-to-pull-its-punches.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=19 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}