Selina Cheng
Selina Cheng is a Hong Kong journalist. Since July 2024 she has been the chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA). She was elected at the HKJA annual meeting on June 22, 2024, by 100 votes to 2, and started the job on July 1, taking over from Ronson Chan. She joined the HKJA board in 2021.
Cheng has looked into several issues, such as fights between Wikipedia editors, political censorship in Hong Kong libraries, the Hong Kong government's lobbying of the U.S. Congress, and Chinese asylum seekers in the United States. She worked for The Wall Street Journal from 2022 to 2024, covering China's energy and car sectors. Earlier she worked for Hong Kong Free Press and HK01.
On July 17, 2024, Cheng was fired from The Wall Street Journal. She said her employer pressured her not to run for HKJA chair; WSJ has denied that the firing was related to her HKJA role. The firing drew criticism from freedom of the press advocates. Organizations publicly supported Cheng, including Human Rights Watch, Georgetown University Law Center's Asia program, the Asian American Journalists Association Asia chapter, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, Reporters Without Borders, Hong Kong’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club, NewsGuild, the Columbia Journalism School faculty, and the HKJA. The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China said it was tracking concerns about the firing.
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