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3 September 2013

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New Book on Beijing by JMSC Alum Published

Beijing: The City of Changes (Swedish title: Peking- Förändringarnas stad), a book by JMSC alumnus Jojje Olsson (MJ, 2010), was released on September 3 by the Stockholm-based publishing house Laurella & Wallin förlag. The book, which is initially being […]

24 August 2013

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JMSC Professor Spends Summer Retracing 2001 Journey Across Afghanistan

JMSC professor Kevin Sites spent his summer the way he has spent much of his professional life – swimming with warlords, having his life threatened, nearly getting hit in a mortar attack, and stepping into the middle of […]

23 August 2013

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JMSC Gets Incoming Journalism Students Off To An Early Start

Incoming students of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre got their journalism training off to an early start in mid-August, covering the IB World Student Conference in real time. The new Bachelor of Journalism and […]

20 August 2013

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August 30: Panel – How Should Hong Kong Copyright Law Handle Parodies and Secondary Creations?

Parodies, satire and mashups abound in today’s culture, particularly on the Internet, but should they be regulated and, if so, how? In July 2013, the government launched a consultation on the treatment of parodies under […]

18 August 2013

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Diary of an Intern at the People’s Daily

Amy Ha, a Bachelor of Journalism student from Hong Kong, recently completed a two month internship at the People’s Daily, the main organ of the Chinese Communist Party. Here is what her experience was like: The […]

15 August 2013

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JMSC Hosts News Literacy Workshop

Problem: as we’re bombarded daily by thousands of bits of digital information, how do we distinguish the accurate from the inaccurate? That question was the focus of a seven-day “news literacy” workshop held last week […]

31 July 2013

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JMSC Alum Joins JMSC Professor to Report on Afghanistan

“If I was with the Taliban now, and I saw you … I would kill you.” According to Abdul Matin Sarfraz (MJ, 2013), these words were spoken to him in July by a former fighter […]

30 July 2013

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Two Accomplished Journalists Conducting New Research on China at JMSC

Two accomplished journalists have begun conducting new research on China at the JMSC. Nip, a senior lecturer in the University of Sydney’s Department of Media and Communications, was a reporter for the Sing Tao Daily News in London, […]