{"id":11721,"date":"2021-01-22T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118909\/rthk-terminates-long-term-contact-journalist-known-hard"},"modified":"2021-01-22T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T13:47:26","slug":"rthk-terminates-long-term-contact-of-journalist-known-for-hard-nosed-approach-union-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/rthk-terminates-long-term-contact-of-journalist-known-for-hard-nosed-approach-union-says\/","title":{"rendered":"RTHK terminates long-term contact of journalist known for hard-nosed approach, union says"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s embattled public broadcaster has terminated the probation contract of a journalist known for her confrontational approach to questioning officials, offering her instead a temporary agreement that effectively erases her more than three years with the outlet, according to the station\u2019s staff union.The union on Friday said that government-funded RTHK had notified assistant programme officer Nabela Qoser of the termination of her probationary contract on Thursday, and offered her a 120\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/politics\/article\/3118909\/rthk-terminates-long-term-contact-journalist-known-hard\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s embattled public broadcaster has terminated the probation contract of a journalist known for her confrontational approach to questioning officials, offering her instead a temporary agreement that effectively erases her more than three years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11784,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions\/11784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}