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.
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