Sharon Cheung (, ) is a

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-based journalist and entrepreneur. She graduated from the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university a ...

in 1995. She worked for the '' South China Morning Post'' from 1995 through 1998 and ''

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News'' and ''

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'' thereafter. She received the Outstanding Performance Award from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003. According to an interview conducted by the

's ''The Varsity'' newspaper in April 2004, Cheung aspired to be a journalist since watching televised footage of the

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of June 4, 1989. Sharon is quoted as saying “I was impressed by the hero who stood in front of the tanks, bravely striving for

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which people, the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choo ...

.” On October 27, 2000, Cheung interviewed then- Communist Party General Secretary of China

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. In this interview, after Jiang said he supported

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, Cheung questioned whether Jiang Zemin had appointed Tung in the election, which made Jiang Zemin angry and then denounced her and the

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as "too simple, sometimes naïve" The interview went viral and made her become famous, and has been dubbed as one of the three foundational works ( zh, s=蛤三篇, l=Three pieces about the Toad) of the Chinese internet subculture of " Toad Worship"."Toad" (; ) is a nickname for Jiang Zemin, who is said to visually resemble a toad. In May 2015, she set up the Lion Rock Spirit Fellowship for journalists from Hong Kong to pursue the Reuters Institute's Journalism Fellowship Programme at the University of Oxford. Sharon Cheung went on to be a senior vice president of Media Asia Entertainment Group, and is now teaching

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (pro ...

at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She advocates for

press freedom Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exerc ...

in China and Hong Kong. In a 2004 interview, Cheung said “the mainland government sees the

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as a

propaganda Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loa ...

tool, to promote its views. However, the

Hong Kong government The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government, refers to the executive authorities of Hong Kong SAR. It was formed on 1 July 1997 in accordance with the Sino- ...

considers the media to be watchdogs that supervise what the government does.” Cheung is now an entrepreneur and works to advise firms on their new media strategies.

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