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.

Selina has access to a network of fixers, investigative reporters and researchers in due diligence fluent in Chinese and English. Please reach out via:

selinacheng.work [@] gmail.com

The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, Rest of World, Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong Free Press, Columbia Journalism Review, ProPublica, Quartz, Miami Herald, AFP, Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, HK01, Vice and French broadcaster M6.

• 2018 Society of Publishes Asia (SOPA) Award, Excellence in Reporting on Women’s Issues, honorable mention

• 2020 SOPA Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting, Finalist

• Gold, silver and bronze prizes at the U.S. Telly Awards