11 September 2017

JMSC lunchtime talks: Journalism in the Age of “Fake News”

12:30-1:30pm, 19 September 2017 (Tuesday) A Fulbrighter’s experience at the MIT Media Lab during the US presidential election Dr. King-wa Fu, Associate Professor After the 2016 United States presidential election and the “surprising” victory of President […]
4 September 2017

JMSC welcomes diverse new intake of students

By George W. Russell The Journalism and Media Studies Centre welcomed 100 new students to its Master of Journalism and Bachelor of Journalism programmes for the 2017-2018 academic year. An orientation for incoming MJs was held on […]
8 August 2017

JMSC’s news literacy efforts gain momentum as online course tops 6,600 enrollees

By Samantha Stanley More than 6,600 students from 125 countries have enrolled in Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens since its launch in January. A recent spike in registration over […]
3 August 2017

Retiring in the East: dean of social sciences faculty achieves 40 years with HKU

  By Tamsyn Burgmann John Burns watched nervously out his window on 30 June 1997 as British military ships and helicopters made a final inspection tour of the East Lamma Channel, contemplating the era about […]
2 August 2017

Master of Journalism graduate awarded Hong Kong Documentary Initiative annual seed grant

2011 Master of Journalism graduate Vincent Du is among six awardees of this year’s Seed Grants Programme. Along with two other recipients, Vincent was awarded a production grant of HK$150,000 for his film China’s Forgotten […]