16 April 2015
Spending all day surfing social media has proven a good career move for three JMSC graduates who have found rewarding jobs working at digital news agency, Storyful.
15 April 2015
Four Bachelor of Journalism students have cut their teeth covering two of China’s most important political meetings, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), contributing reporting to Hong Kong’s Ming Pao and South China Morning Post newspapers.
8 April 2015
Sasa Vucinic, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of media investment fund North Base Media (http://northbasemedia.net/), will discuss the opportunities and challenges of investing in digital media.
31 March 2015
Sennott will share why he believes the ad-supported model is a failure and how he hopes to make GlobalPost/GroundTruth a unique 'hybrid' with a for-profit publishing platform and a non-profit, mission driven arm that produces high-end social justice journalism.
30 March 2015
A visually impaired student with a lead role in “My Voice, My Life”, a documentary directed by Oscar-winning JMSC lecturer Ruby Yang, has headlined the film’s screening at the Centre for Asian American Media film festival 2015 (CAAMfest) in San Francisco.
25 March 2015
24 March 2015
Professor Odd Arne Westad surveys the past history of relations between Japan and China and suggests how these two states might deal with each other in future. This is the third of a series of lectures by Prof. Westad on China’s relations with other Asian powers.
23 March 2015
Dr. Jamie Wardman offers a personal history of important advances and trends in the evolution of ‘computer-mediated risk perception and communication’ over the past twenty years.
19 March 2015
The growth of applications like WeChat, Line, and KakaoTalk have raised questions about the pressures they may face in specific jurisdictions to censor or monitor communications and provide governments with user data. Masashi Crete-Nishihata, from Citizen Lab, will present his research on these issues, as well as how these companies may respond to these demands.
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.