The poster above was in Guangzhou, at a news bureau, just before going off to the university to speak.

She has now accepted a new post as the dean of the journalism school at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, a job she had been offered before it became clear that she would leave Caijing.

Ms. Hu will initially take a job teaching journalism at Zhongshan University in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, according to people familiar with the matter.