Selina Cheng says she was told by her supervisor that employees of the 'Journal' should not be seen as advocating for press freedom in a place like Hong Kong given a potential conflict of interest
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'FIRED.' Selina Cheng, the newly elected chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, speaks to media after her employment contract with the Wall Street Journal was terminated, in Hong Kong, on July 17, 2024.
Selina Cheng, who worked in the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau as a reporter covering China’s automobile sector, was elected on June 22 to be the HKJA’s new chairperson at a time of mounting pressure by authorities under a“My supervisor in the UK directed me to withdraw from the election,” Cheng told reporters on Wednesday after walking out of the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau.
should not be seen as advocating for press freedom in a place like Hong Kong given a potential conflict of interest.s decision, saying that by pressuring employees not to take part in the HKJA, the newspaper “risks hastening the decline of what space for independent journalism remains.”“The situation I am facing is temporary, but I think the responsibility of safeguarding press freedom is longer-term and more important than a job or salary.
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