22 July 2013

Fresh JMSC Grads Parlay Newly Minted Skills and Internships into Jobs

Several newly minted graduates from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre have parlayed the skills and internship experiences they acquired during their studies into jobs at media organisations in Hong Kong. Vicky Kung (BJ, 2013) […]
22 July 2013

JMSC Alum Teaches Media Skills to Refugees on Thailand-Burma Border

Jasmine Siu, a fresh graduate of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre’s Bachelor of Journalism programme, is passing on what she learned at the JMSC by teaching media literacy to Burmese refugees this summer in Mae […]
13 July 2013

JMSC Alum’s New Documentary to Air on Al Jazeera

China’s Little Rock Star, a documentary by JMSC alumnus Vincent Du, will be aired on Al Jazeera English starting Tuesday, July 16, as the first film of the network’s Viewfinder Asia series. The show will premier at 6:30 a.m. Hong […]
3 July 2013

Improved Response to Disease Outbreaks Could Fail Without Proper Communication, Health Experts Warn

Improved responses to public health emergencies could be futile unless better ways are found to communicate with the communities most at risk, infectious disease experts have warned. According to Dr. Paul Gully and Professor Malik Peiris, it is […]
26 June 2013

Communicating Infectious Diseases Conference Kicks off at Hong Kong University

A two-and-a-half-day conference sponsored by the JMSC kicked off Wednesday at Hong Kong University to mark the tenth anniversary of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) pandemic. Global health professionals, communications experts and medical doctors […]
19 June 2013

JMSC Alum Wins Prestigious International Radio Program Award

JMSC alumna Reenita Malhotra Hora has won the Gold Radio Trophy in the current affairs category at the New York Festivals’ International Radio Program Awards. Hora (MJ, 2012) won the prestigious award for her program, The […]
15 June 2013

English-Language Twitter Feed of Posts Censored from Sina Weibo Created by JMSC Students

WeiboTrendsPro, a Twitter feed of English translations of posts that have been deleted from the Chinese social networking website Sina Weibo, has been created by three JMSC graduate students. Chinese censors routinely delete online posts […]
15 June 2013

SCMP Picks Up Timeline of NSA Leaks Produced by JMSC Students

Two students in the JMSC’s Master of Journalism programme have produced an interactive timeline of the recent National Security Agency intelligence leaks – which made headlines all over the world – that was picked up by […]