Learn more about the JMSC Master of Journalism / Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism at the next Admission Briefing Session:
All are welcome.
Open Class Week – January 18-23, 2010. Registration for Open Class Week is required.
Enquiries: Shirley Wu – phone 2219-4413 or e-mail jmscmj@hku.hk
The Hong Kong media don’t pay enough attention to family life, are too negative and tend to blame families rather than other factors for society’s problems.
Those are the findings of the JMSC’s report Portrayals of the Family in the Hong…
The JMSC welcomes back Thomas Abraham – and four members of staff for the Spring Semester.
Thomas Abraham is Director of the Public Health Media Project at HKU and Assistant Professor at the JMSC. He has just returned from working as Team Leader (News) at…
Zela Chin is a Master of Journalism student who’s on the beat at the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia for her winter internship.
The Post is a daily English language newspaper published in full-colour tabloid format in Phnom Penh. Cambodia’s…
Phillippa Stewart has just completed her second week at the Jakarta Globe, an English language broadsheet newspaper printed in Indonesia. Published daily, it covers national and international news, Indonesian and world business, and features and lifestyle pages.
In her own words, here…
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Professor Leo Lee Ou-fan (李歐梵) gave the final talk of his Humanities Now: Perspectives Across Cultures series this Friday. Garden in the City focused on architecture and the development of the West Kowloon Cultural…
Budding journalist and MJ student, Phillippa Stewart, has kept a diary of the first week of her internship at the Jakarta Globe.
The Globe is an English language broadsheet newspaper printed in Indonesia. Published daily, it covers national and international news, Indonesian…
MJ student Zela Chin has completed the first week of her internship at the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia and gained her first byline.
The Post is a daily English language newspaper published in full-colour tabloid format in Phnom…
Teaching Consultant
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.
