Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association

Selina Cheng, who covered China’s automobiles and energy sectors for the WSJ, was told her termination was due to restructuring. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters

The chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association has been fired by her employer, the Wall Street Journal, weeks after being appointed as the head of the embattled union.

Selina Cheng said she was “appalled” that her first press conference as HKJA chair was to announce that she had been “fired for taking up this position in a press union”.