Chan Pui King
Honorary Lecturer
puikingchan@gmail.com
Chan Pui-king is a veteran investigative journalist who also has worked in media management for nearly two decades. She was editor-in-chief of Next Magazine where she helped lead teams on investigative projects involving political, corporate and business issues. She also contributed reporting for the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on a tobacco-related project. She was the first research fellow of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong in 1999 and wrote a guide on access to public information in Hong Kong that has become an authoritative reference for journalists. Part of the work was published in Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals. She has a BSocSci degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Sky Canaves
Honorary Lecturer
skycana@hku.hk
Sky Canaves is a specialist in media law and China. Prior to joining the JMSC in August 2010, Sky was a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and Beijing, where she covered media, law, and social issues and served as the founding editor and lead writer of The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report. She has written for various other news outlets, including The Financial Times and Bloomberg News.
Previously, Sky was an associate at a large international law firm in Hong Kong, where she focused on corporate transactions in China. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, a Master of Journalism from the University of Hong Kong, and a Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College, where she majored in English Literature and developed a lifelong interest in China after a year studying at Nanjing University. Her current research interests include press freedom, access to information, China’s media development, social media regulation, and the intersection of intellectual property and technology.
Michael Coyne
Honorary Lecturer
photos@michaelcoyne.com.au
Dr Michael Coyne’s photographs have appeared in prominent publications around the world including National Geographic, German Geo, Time, Life and Newsweek. He has had a number of successful books published of his work and won awards from groups such as the American National Press Photographers Association, Overseas Press Club of America, FCC Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards . He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (by publication) degree from Griffith University in October 2008.
Dr Coyne is under contract to the New York photo agency, Black Star. For the last 30 years he has covered international events such as the Iran Iraq war, Palestinian Israeli conflict, East Timor independence, the Tiananmen Square uprising, the Rwandan massacre and the recent protests in Bangkok.
He is currently working on a book about villages around the world documenting phenomena such as globalisation, dispossession of land, loss of culture and mass migration.
Kevin Drew
Honorary Lecturer
KKDrew1@hotmail.com
Kevin Drew is an editor and correspondent for The New York Times’ global editions, based in Hong Kong. His work experience reflects the changes in journalism.
He began his career as a newspaper reporter on the West Coast of the United States before moving to Prague, when it was still the capital of the then-Czechoslovakia. He worked in Central and Eastern Europe for much of the 1990s, reporting and editing for various news organizations. In 2000 he joined CNN Interactive, moving to the digital and broadcast mediums.
In 2005 he moved to Hong Kong to work as CNN International’s head of digital news operations in the Asia-Pacific. He has since come full circle, moving to the Times and the International Herald Tribune. He uses traditional and developing newsgathering methods to report and edit the news for print and the Internet.
Jeremiah Foo
Honorary Lecturer
jeremiah.foo@gmail.com
Jeremiah Foo brings 18 years of technology and media experience in parts of Asia stretching from India to China to his native Malaysia.
In addition to teaching at the JMSC, he teaches digital and media-related production technology at Shantou University’s Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication. He also serves as the school’s technical chief and manager of the its Convergent Media Lab.
He is co-founder of the eMuse group of companies in Malaysia, which creates media content. He served as assistant vice president of Asian Artiste & Repertoire, where he oversaw the building of the publishing division and product development of Singapore-based MediaStream Limited, a producer, publisher and distributor of music and visuals. He has written for In•Tech, a weekly technology pullout published by Star Publications in Malaysia, covering new and emerging technologies. He helped set up Mizzima.tv, a Burmese station based in New Delhi.
Danny Gittings
Danny Gittings is an assistant professor and senior programme director at HKU SPACE College of Humanities and Law, where he runs one of Hong Kong’s largest sub-degree law programmes and teaches a wide variety of law courses.
He is also a regular host of Radio Television Hong Kong’s Backchat phone-in show, where he has interviewed a wide variety of leading figures in the local community, including Hong Kong ’s chief executive.
He formerly worked for 10 years in a number of senior editorial positions at the South China Morning Post, during which time he reported extensively on political and legal developments in Hong Kong, including the 1997 handover from Britain to China. He was also deputy editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia for five years, travelling widely in the region to cover major events.
He is co-editor of Introduction to Crime, Law and Justice in Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) and a qualified barrister in both London and Hong Kong.
Angharad Hampshire
Honorary Lecturer
angharad.hampshire@googlemail.com
Angharad Hampshire worked on many radio programmes, including news, current and consumer affairs as well as arts, documentaries and other programmes while working for the BBC for more than 12 years.
She has reported for the BBC World Service in the U.K., China, Nepal, Afghanistan and Africa. In 2007, she won a BBC Onassis Bursary to go to Mount Everest where she recorded material for two documentaries. She has also made documentaries in China and Tibet. She has trained more than 50 journalists for the BBC in Afghanistan and Africa.
She reports on arts, culture and science in Hong Kong for the BBC World Service and is a regular contributor in print to Muse Magazine and the South China Morning Post. She has an MA in French from the University of Edinburgh and a PGCE from the Institute of Education at the University of London.
Peter Herford
Visiting Professor
pherford@gmail.com
A 27-year veteran of CBS News, Peter Herford was a producer for 60 Minutes and the CBS Eevening News with Walter Cronkite, Bureau Chief in the US Midwest, Paris and Vietnam during the war. He rose to executive ranks as vice president of the news division.
Currently, Herford is a Professor at the Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication and Executive Director of the International Media Institute at the Shantou University.
Prior to joining the J-school at Shantou U in March 2003, Herford was the Senior Executive for Production for Public Radio International in the United States.
He taught for six years at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and was director of the University of Chicago’s William Benton Fellowships in Broadcast Journalism program. Herford has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia College and the Graduate School of International Affairs of Columbia University.
Barry Kalb
Honorary Lecturer
barryathku@yahoo.com
Barry Kalb started his career in journalism in 1967 at the Washington Evening Star. After eight years, he moved to Hong Kong in 1975, briefly for NBC News, and then as a staff correspondent for CBS News. In 1979, he joined Time magazine as Eastern Europe bureau chief, based in West Berlin, and subsequently moved to Rome, New York and back to Hong Kong with Time.
He took a 14-year break from journalism to become a restauranteur in Hong Kong, finally leaving that business in 2002. In late 2002, he returned to journalism, as an editor at the Voice of America bureau in Hong Kong.
He has covered the Watergate corruption scandal in Washington D.C., the deaths of Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung and the return to power of Deng Xiaoping in China, the beginnings of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in Rome, among many other stories.
Matthew Leung
Honorary Lecturer
matleung@hku.hk
Matthew Leung joined the JMSC in 2003 as creative director responsible for developing, designing and publishing educational and promotional materials. He has more than 15 years experience in editorial production, including design, graphics and desktop publishing, and in exhibition, museum, showroom and event production. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia.
Irene Jay Liu
Honorary Lecturer
Irene Jay Liu is a news editor at Thomson Reuters, based in Hong Kong. Previously, she was senior reporter and special projects team leader at the South China Morning Post.
In the United States, Liu worked as a political reporter at the Times Union in Albany, New York and an on-air correspondent for PBS’ New York Now. She has been a contributor to National Public Radio and a correspendent for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
She taught computer-assisted reporting as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Liu holds degrees from Yale University (BA, Political Science) and Columbia University (MS, Journalism).
Alex Lo, a native Hongkonger, stumbled into journalism after watching one too many movies about war correspondents and photographers. He has been with the South China Morning Post for 16 years, working variously as a senior reporter and editor, humour and op-ed columnist and editorial writer.
He is currently part of an editorial team that picks the daily front page and other leading news stories. He also writes the daily How We See It editorial column and edits a weekly science and technology page in the Sunday Morning Post.
Before joining the Post, he was a reporter with the short-lived Eastern Express and an education editor at the Hongkong Standard. In between, he worked as a freelance public relations and media consultant for two years.
Velentina Ma
Honorary Lecturer
velentinam@hku.hk
Velentina Ma Oi-nuen is a professional writer who has worked as a journalist in Hong Kong for over 15 years for Children’s Daily, Ming Pao, Next Magazine, Hong Kong Economic Times and various Chinese newspapers and magazines, especially focused on writing features and personality profiles.
She is also the author of a book on collected profile stories and a biography of doctor Joanna Tse, best known as the “daughter of Hong Kong”, the first doctor to sacrifice her life during the catastrophe of SARS in 2003.
Velentina gained her BA from the Hong Kong Baptist University and her MJ from the JMSC (first class of graduates in 2001). She was the senior officer (media affairs) of the Vocational Training Council’s External Relations Office and joined the JMSC in August 2007 as project manager for the pioneering Project for Public Culture.
Her research focuses on the study of a noted contemporary Chinese writer, Eileen Chang.
Rob McBride
Honorary Lecturer
rob@robmcbride.com
Rob McBride began his career in the early 1980s, reporting from the Falkland Islands in the aftermath of the South Atlantic Conflict. After working for commercial radio and then Granada TV in Manchester, he transferred to London in 1989 and worked for Thames TV, ITN and TV-AM.
In 1992, he joined a news agency to work in Asia for international broadcasters ranging from Channel 9 of Australia to the BBC and Sky News in Britain.
He also has worked for CNBC and National Geographic Television. In 1999, he became a freelance pioneer in Asia of video journalism. He has worked extensively in the region for Star TV, and regularly for companies as diverse as PBS network in the US and UN Television.
Kees Metselaar
Honorary Lecturer
photokees@yahoo.com
Kees Metselaar graduated as a scientist from the Free University in Amsterdam before he became a full time photojournalist in the mid eighties. His first big story was the fall of dictator Marcos in the Philippines in 1986. He photographed famine in the Sudan and the mujahedin in Afghanistan. In the early 1990’s, after he had moved his base to Hong Kong, he concentrated on South-East Asia. He was in Bangladesh when a giant cyclone killed more than 100,000 people and solf those pictures around the world.
He was in Indonesia during the fall of another dictator, president Suharto , and has photographed all over this vast country.
His photographs are sold by his Dutch agency Hollandse Hoogte. He has exhibited in Europe and Hong Kong.
More recently in Hong Kong , he has been documenting the old market and life styles of Central and Western Districts.
Michael Meyer
Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995 as a Peace Corps volunteer. His first book, The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed, details the capital’s oldest neighbourhood as the city remade itself for the 2008 Olympics. His follow-up, In Manchuria, which details life on a rice farm in northeast China, will be published in 2012.
Meyer has won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and the Whiting Writers’ Award for Nonfiction, and his stories have appeared in Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Smithsonian, the Financial Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. In China, he represented the National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations. In 2009, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Nancy Tong
Visiting Associate Professor
filmtong@hku.hk
Nancy Tong has been producing documentaries for 30 years. She began her career as a news reporter in Hong Kong with HK-TVB. She moved to New York City in 1981 and worked as an independent film producer.
Among her dozens of projects were Who Killed Vincent Chin? which was nominated in 1989 for an Academy Award; In the Name of the Emperor, which was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1995; and Cancer: From Evolution to Revolution, which won a George Foster Peabody Award in 2000.
From 1999 – 2007, Tong taught documentary production at The School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. Her current projects include teaching media production to Muslim women in China, Pakistan, and Indonesia; ten short documentaries for the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City; and a documentary on a reconstruction project in the Forbidden City of Beijing for The China Heritage Fund.
Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh has been in broadcasting and journalism for 30 years, the past 12 in Hong Kong. He began his career in radio in the United States, and moved into television with CNN in Atlanta in 1992. He has served as editor, writer, producer and trainer for CNN staff and affiliate stations. In 1999, he moved to Hong Kong with CNN International’s expanding operation here.
In 2004, he launched Media Advisers Asia, Ltd, a training and consulting company. He has conducted training workshops for broadcasters and journalists in 17 Asian countries and territories, often in cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. He also teaches media training workshops for corporate executives and spokespeople.
He worked as an editor at Voice of America’s Hong Kong bureau from 2005-2008 and continues to do freelance work for CNN Hong Kong. He has also been a field producer for programs that air on the Travel Channel and Discovery Channel, including Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, and does voice over work for TV and radio commercials, documentaries, corporate videos and educational products.
John Young
Honorary Lecturer
shexiang@hku.hk
John Young is former associate director of the JMSC. Before coming to HKU, he served as the Deputy Director of California’s Office of Trade and Investment for China and Hong Kong.
Prior to that, he served as Special Assistant and Counsel to San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. He oversaw the development of the mayor’s first annual budget, implementing legislative and administrative actions that enabled the Brown administration to transform the previous administration’s budget deficit to a budget surplus.
He is also an experienced freelance journalist. He has a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, and a BA in Political Science and East Asian Studies from University of California at Berkeley.
