17 March 2015
11 March 2015
Fifty years of military rule has left Myanmar with a shortage of journalists and an immediate need for journalism and news literacy education taught with an emphasis on balanced, ethical reporting, according to JMSC associate professor, Masato Kajimoto.
27 February 2015
In this talk Dr. Kajimoto examines how university educators in Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar adapted a news literacy curriculum initially designed for the students in democratic societies.
25 February 2015
Health professionals from China and Afghanistan have completed a JMSC health risk communication workshop, the second such workshop held at the JMSC.
13 February 2015
JMSC graduate Lhagva Erdene has helped establish a media ethics council in Mongolia.
10 February 2015
The JMSC is launching a new open online course, called Making Sense of News, that will enable people to learn how to critically evaluate their news and news sources to better understand the social issues and current affairs that affect their everyday lives.
8 February 2015
JMSC graduate and multi-media journalist, Phillippa Stewart, has completed a year-long, 15,000km charity cycle from Malaysia to the UK, and won an international photographic competition along the way.
6 February 2015
Persistence, independence, proactive pitching and “doing your homework” are key lessons for all budding journalists, according to the experience of JMSC masters students.
3 February 2015
Syed Karim, founder and CEO of Outernet, a technology start-up that seeks to provide free basic web access broadcast via a mini-cube satellites.
2 February 2015
Replication is an essential requirement for scientific discovery. The current study aims to generalise and replicate 10 propositions made in previous Twitter studies using a representative dataset.
28 January 2015
Preliminary results of the social network analysis of the Hong Kong Facebook pages sharing network collected during the “Umbrella Movement” are used to discover the communities within the network and how these communities contributed to the public opinion formation. The findings suggest that large communities of Facebook pages seem to be grouped by political ideologies and their post-sharing activities were associated with real-life public opinion.
20 January 2015
Arts and Culture Journalism and Digital Media Entrepreneurship are the latest additions to the JMSC's masters of journalism curriculum and will be taught by two international lecturers, with local and international guest speakers.