Selina Cheng is a business and investigative reporter. She is also a press freedom advocate & union leader in her position as chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
She most recently was Wall Street Journal's reporter covering major automobile companies operating in China. While at WSJ, she broke exclusive scoops about rising inventory and quality issues that BYD encountered in Europe, and the departure of multiple international due diligence firms from Hong Kong.
Earlier, she broke exclusive stories on the Hong Kong government's lobbying efforts in Washington DC through HKETO offices, Wikipedia's sanctions against a group of Chinese power users, the footprint of Harvey Weinstein and his business partner in Hong Kong, and how some of China’s most wanted millionaires found asylum in the U.S.
Prior to joining the Journal, she was a reporter for Hong Kong Free Press and before that she was an investigative reporter at HK01, one of the city's largest news outlets, where her work won journalism awards in Asia and the U.S.
Selina is constantly driven to pursue deeply reported stories that reveal larger patterns and trends, not just random anecdotes of wrongdoing.
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Challenges and Strategies for Women Investigative Journalists