Wong Lai-ping, deputy chief of China news of iCable, said management made lay-off decision without consulting unit heads. Szeto Yuen, China news chief, had decided in advance that he would resign if any one in his team got fired. The rest of team decided to follow Szeto's lead. 
China news deputy Wong Lai-ping's voice began to shake when she recalled how iCable ignored the efforts her team paid despite pay cut.
"We went to Wuhan when other news stations evacuated; We never missed one day of news despite manpower crunch under quarantine..."
"We went to Wuhan when other news stations evacuated; We never missed one day of news despite manpower crunch under quarantine..."
Wong said the parachuted management "had rather hostile attitudes towards the newsroom", and what happened today has crossed the journos' bottom line although "we had been putting up with everything, hoping it would be our last compromise".
Wong has also summarised the spiralling down of iCable: when management claimed financial difficulties, new hire is frozen, experienced journos can't get pay rise, senior director was removed, yet four other directors were parachuted in at salaries unknown to general staff.
”It's really frustrating that people who want to do news are led by people who don't know how to. Under the national security law, reporting environment in HK can be worse than mainland China because the police in mainland can reason and you know more clearly what can't be done."
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