17 March 2010

Hong Kong: Our City, Our Society

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

Yang Hengjun on Bloggers and Social Change in China

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

JMSC Pacquiao Story Taken by ABC

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 […]
10 March 2010

Web Writing Workshop

Barry Kalb, Honorary Lecturer at the JMSC, normally teaches news writing to BJs and MJs at the JMSC, but over the last year he’s held half a dozen writing workshops for university staff. He starts off […]
1 March 2010

ABC Project — On Air and Online

What began as an assignment last year for adjunct Rob McBride’s video production class by students Li Li, Chen Yuanni, and Lorea Solabarrieta has become the first broadcast package for the ABC News project. The […]
1 March 2010

ABC Story: Bird’s Nest in Winter

he JMSC News on Campus team had another story accepted by ABC. MJ student Li Li came up with the idea of reporting on the National Stadium in Beijing's transformation into a winter wonderland.