AP Interview: Chinese editor Hu Shuli steps aside, not down
BEIJING — Some say China’s most prominent journalist is finished.
Far from it, says Hu Shuli, founder of the financial magazine Caixin.
Hu listened one recent afternoon to the theories floating in China’s chattering class about why she was handing over the editorial reins at Caixin, the only newsroom known for hard-hitting, investigative reporting in China — and dismissed them.
“Laughable rumours,” Hu snapped. “I’m not stepping back or stepping down. You could say I’m stepping up.”