Bio: Masato Kajimoto

Author: JMSC staff

Masato Kajimoto

In Japanese, his name is spelled as
鍛治本 (Kajimoto) 正人 (Masato).

Lecturer
E-mail: kajimoto@hku.hk
Twitter: @sociologjourno
Instagram: @sociologjourno

Masato Kajimoto came to Hong Kong in 2001 to work as an online reporter and “Specials” editor (web producer) for CNN before beginning a career in teaching and research.

Born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, he earned his bachelor’s degree in English and American literature at Chuo University in Tokyo.

He holds a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in the U.S.

As a professional journalist, Masato has written news articles, features and columns in English and in Japanese.

As a journalism educator, he has supervised many online projects integrating broadcast and internet technologies.

Multimedia storytelling, news literacy and the roles of social media in journalism are the main focus of his teaching.

His current research interest is in the analysis of what he calls “cultural framing” of international news stories.

Courses

Supervising projects

Workshops/Seminars

  • “Online Journalism Workshop for Secondary School Students” (in collaboration with the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education and the Young Post), Hong Kong, October 2012
  • “15 online tools for effective teaching and learning,” CITE Research Symposium, Hong Kong, June 2011
  • “Basic Online Media Skills,” The Media Academy for Professionals at JMSC, Hong Kong, May 2011

Conference Papers

  • “Cultural framing of “heroes” in time of crisis: a comparative analysis of Japanese and Western media, journalistic practice, and audience response,” The Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2012