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Head of Hong Kong’s prime journalist group says she misplaced ‘WSJ’ job because of her function
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Head of Hong Kong’s prime journalist group says she misplaced ‘WSJ’ job because of her function

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Head of Hong Kong’s prime journalist group says she misplaced ‘WSJ’ job because of her function

Selina Cheng, newly elected chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Affiliation, speaks to media in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Cheng stated she misplaced her job at The Wall Road Journal after she refused her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for the management put up.

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HONG KONG — The brand new chair of Hong Kong’s main media skilled group on Wednesday stated she misplaced her job at The Wall Road Journal after she refused her supervisor’s request to withdraw from the election for the management put up.

Reporter Selina Cheng advised a press briefing {that a} senior editor advised her that her job was eradicated because of restructuring. However Cheng stated she believed the actual motive was linked to her supervisor’s request about three weeks in the past to withdraw from the election for chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Affiliation, a commerce union for journalists additionally advocating for press freedom.

Roy Kwong Chun-yu, a pro-democracy member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council at the time, spoke over a loud-hailer to the police as he joined protesters in Hong Kong on July 1, 2019. Demonstrators pushed barriers and dumpsters into the streets in an apparent bid to block access to a ceremony marking the anniversary of the handover of the former British colony to China.

She stated her supervisor additionally requested her to stop the affiliation’s board, which she has served on since 2021. After she refused, she was advised “it will be incompatible” together with her job.

“I am appalled that the first press conference I’m giving as HKJA’s new chair is to announce that I was fired for taking up this position in a press union,” stated Cheng, who was elected as the brand new chair in June.

Dow Jones, which publishes the newspaper, confirmed Wednesday it made “some personnel changes” however refused to touch upon people.

“The Wall Street Journal has been and continues to be a fierce and vocal advocate for press freedom in Hong Kong and around the world,” it stated in an announcement emailed to The Related Press.

Hong Kong journalists work in a narrowing area after drastic political adjustments within the metropolis that was as soon as seen as a bastion of media freedom in Asia.

Because the introduction of a Beijing-imposed nationwide safety regulation in 2020, two native information retailers identified for essential protection of the federal government, Apple Day by day and Stand Information, had been compelled to close down after the arrest of their senior administration, together with Apple Day by day writer Jimmy Lai.

In March, Hong Kong enacted one other safety regulation to focus on participating in espionage, disclosing state secrets and techniques and “colluding with external forces” to commit unlawful acts, amongst others. The laws has sparked worries amongst many journalists over an extra decline in media freedom.

Lower than per week after the enactment, the U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia introduced its Hong Kong bureau had been closed due to security issues underneath the brand new regulation.

The Hong Kong Journalists Affiliation has been criticized by native authorities and pro-Beijing media retailers lately.

In June, Secretary for Safety Chris Tang stated the affiliation lacks legitimacy and accused it of getting stood with the protesters in 2019.

The Wall Road Journal additionally has confronted strain from the federal government. Final July, it acquired three grievance letters from Tang over its editorial or opinion items.

In Might, the U.S. media outlet introduced to its employees that it was shifting “its center of gravity” within the area from Hong Kong to Singapore. That resulted in some staffers shedding their jobs within the Chinese language monetary hub. Cheng, who lined China’s vehicle and vitality sector, was not affected.

After she refused to withdraw from the HKJA’s election final month, she stated, her supervisor advised her that Wall Road Journal‘s staff shouldn’t be seen as advocating for press freedom in “a place like Hong Kong” as a result of such advocacy would create a battle because the outlet stories on incidents about press freedom within the metropolis.
 
Cheng stated the outlet has been supportive of her colleague Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia on espionage expenses that he, his employer and the U.S. authorities vehemently deny.

“This is why I am deeply shocked that senior editors at the paper would actively violate their employees’ human rights by preventing them from advocating for press freedom the Journal’s reporters rely on to work,” stated Cheng, who labored as a video information assistant with The Related Press in Hong Kong in 2014.

She asserted that her former employer has negatively impacted Hong Kong’s worsening press freedom.

The HKJA stated in an announcement that The Wall Road Journal dangers hastening the decline of what area stays for unbiased journalism by pressuring its staff to not participate in it. Different elected board members of the affiliation have additionally been pressured by their employers to face down, it stated, with out giving particulars.

Hong Kong ranked one hundred and thirty fifth out of 180 international locations and territories in Reporters With out Borders’ newest World Press Freedom Index.

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