The head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association or HKJA says she was fired by the Wall Street Journal Wednesday, July 17, after she refused demands from senior editors to not advocate for media freedoms.
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00:00The head of the Hong Kong Journals Association, or HKJA, said she was fired by the Wall Street
00:07Journal Wednesday, July 17, after she refused demands from senior editors not to advocate
00:12for media freedoms.
00:14Selena Cheng said she was told by her supervisor, Wall Street Journal's World Coverage Chief,
00:18Gordon Fairclough, employees of the journal should not be seen as advocating for press
00:22freedom in a place like Hong Kong, given a potential conflict of interest.
00:28She was elected on June 22 to be the HKJA's new chairperson, but was told beforehand by
00:33Fairclough to withdraw from the election.
00:35Cheng worked in the journal's Hong Kong bureau as a reporter covering China's automobile
00:40sector.
00:41She says she will continue to head the HKJA.
00:43A spokesperson for Dow Jones, the journal's parent company, says the Wall Street Journal
00:48has been and continues to be a fierce and vocal advocate for press freedom in Hong Kong
00:53and around the world.