13 June 2012
Six JMSC alumni were among the winners at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for Editorial Excellence, which took place on Thursday, June 7. The awards cover traditional and new media in the […]
7 June 2012
Rob Schmitz, Marketplace’s China correspondent in Shanghai, will give a talk titled “Fact-checking Foxconn: The Evolving Labour Story in China” at Hong Kong University’s Shanghai Study Centre on Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 2pm. Rob Schmitz joined […]
5 June 2012
Alison Hui (BJ 2011) has won an award for Best Oral Presentation at the 12th Annual HKU Research Postgraduate Conference. Her topic was using the media to encourage those suffering from depression to seek help. “I […]
25 May 2012
Saul Sugarman, who graduated from the JMSC’s Master of Journalism Programme in 2009, has won two awards for his reporting for a legal affairs newspaper, the Daily Journal, in San Francisco. The awards were given on […]
23 May 2012
The JMSC offered a series of two-hour-long workshops teaching on-line, photography and video editing skills. The worshops, which accommodated 10 to 15 people each, were run during the University of Hong Kong’s reading weeks or at the […]
17 May 2012
Master of Journalism students are completing their credit requirements this month during the one-month long summer mini-semester. They’ve had the choice of Reporting the Big Issues in Science, Documentary Video Production, News Editing, and Global […]
11 May 2012
Winners of Master of Journalism scholarships have had great success in getting their work published this year. Sanday Chongo Kabange of Zambia was among 13 students to receive a scholarship this year. The scholarships are given […]
8 May 2012
JMSC students and alumni are getting a realistic lesson in starting their own media company, courtesy of digital media expert Dan Gillmor. A seven-day class taught by Gillmor looks at the culture of start-up companies […]
7 May 2012
Professor Dan Gillmor, an internationally recognised author and authority on digital media, will deliver a public lecture on entrepreneurship in the digital media on Saturday, May 19, at Hong Kong University’s Shanghai Study Centre. As […]
2 May 2012
This year’s graduating Bachelor of Journalism students celebrated the end of their studies in style at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong. The party was organised by JMSC Honorary Lecturer, Jeff Timmermans, and held […]
19 April 2012
Professor Timothy Garton Ash wants to get the whole world talking about freedom of speech. The journalist, author and Professor of European Studies at Oxford University came to talk at the JMSC on Thursday, April […]
16 April 2012
The JMSC has partnered with public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) to produce Cantonese news content for a weekly radio programme this semester. Students applied the skills learned from the JMSC’s Radio News and […]