30 March 2010
VoxAsia is Hong Kong University’s hottest news site. It is the brainchild of JMSC Senior Teaching Consultant Diane Stormont and is operated by MJs in the advanced online class JMSC6083. As a former Bureau Chief for […]
29 March 2010
Fan Lixin, the award-winning documentary maker, answered questions about his film Last Train Home at HKU on Monday.
29 March 2010
Christian Caryl, Muse Magazine Critic-in-Residence, shares some tips on good writing.
29 March 2010
Clara Law and Eddie Fong’s innovative films navigate the Chinese diaspora.
Their filmography examines this subject with stories and characters traversing continents and blurring societal boundaries.
The married director-writer team discussed their work during a March 25 film seminar at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre. They had travelled to Hong Kong from Australia to screen two films at the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival: Like a Dream and Red Earth.
26 March 2010
The JMSC has started using QR codes, which look like a two-dimensional square of barcode, on its posters.
24 March 2010
Chan Pui-king, an honorary lecturer at the JMSC, is, like many investigative journalists, in the business of gathering information.
22 March 2010
Len Apcar, the new economics editor of the New York Times and visiting lecturer at the JMSC in online media and development, led a discussion on Friday about new and social media. Apcar was joined […]
19 March 2010
Len Apcar, editor of the Asian edition of the International Herald Tribune, and a visiting professor at the JMSC, is leaving Hong Kong to take up a new role as economics editor of the New York […]
17 March 2010
Four JMSC Bachelor of Journalism students covered the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing for Hong Kong local daily newspaper, Ming Pao. Chai Yi […]
17 March 2010
The latest instalment of Hong Kong Stories (香港故事) has arrived. Students of Masato Kajimoto’s New Media Workshop (JMSC 0007) course have released this week their term projects under the theme of Hong Kong: Our City, […]
16 March 2010
It testifies to the power of the Internet in China that a jack of all trades like Yang Hengjun (杨恒均) — expert on international affairs, writer of spy fiction and business executive — can carve out a role for himself as a one-man media powerhouse. Yang has been online for five years, and seriously blogging for just three. But measured by unique IP visits to his various blog sites, he now averages 150,000 readers a day.
15 March 2010
The JMSC’s ABC News on Campus team has had its third story broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company. MJ student Tem Hansen reported on the mania surrounding Manny Pacquiao in the Philippines. The boxer, nicknamed […]