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.

Director of Media Law Project & Associate Professor
doreen@hku.hk

Doreen Weisenhaus teaches media law and ethics. Prior to joining the Journalism and Media Studies Centre in 2000, she was city editor of The New York Times. She also was the first legal editor of The New York Times Magazine before becoming its law and politics editor. Before that, Weisenhaus was editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal, a leading publication for lawyers in the U.S. that won several major journalism awards during her tenure.

She also was a prosecutor in New York City, a television news producer in Chicago and a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University’s School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Medill School of Journalism, also at Northwestern. She is the author of the book, Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals (HKU Press 2007).

Director of Business Journalism Programme & Professor
rtodd@hku.hk

Rusty Todd comes to the University of Hong Kong from the University of Texas Journalism School, where he is a professor specializing in editing and business journalism. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Todd lived in Hong Kong for nine years in the 1980s and 90s, when he was a reporter and news editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal and an executive with Dow Jones/Telerate. He was founding editor of the Dow Jones Emerging Market Report. Earlier, he served as state editor at the Austin American-Statesman and city editor at the Daily Missourian at the University of Missouri.

He is currently an editor at the Texas Observer. Todd and his wife Sarah have two daughters, both born in Hong Kong.

Associate Professor
sukosd@hku.hk

Miklos Sukosd has been academic director for the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Hungary, where he was also an associate professor. He has also taught at ELTE University in Hungary, and at Princeton and Harvard universities in the U.S. He is the author or editor of numerous academic texts. His research interests include political communication and democratic performance of the media in post-communist states; media law, regulation and democratization in post-communist states; environmental politics, and communications. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and an MA in sociology from Harvard.

Qian Gang is former managing editor of Southern Weekend, a leading mainland newspaper. He also is one of the founders of China Central Television’s News Probe, a weekly investigative news magazine that attracts 20 million viewers

Director of Broadcasting Programme &
Senior Teaching Consultant

Teaching Consultant
(joins JMSC in January 2010)

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.

Thomas Abraham is a former editor of the South China Morning Post. Prior to joining the SCMP, he spent 13 years as a foreign correspondent based in Sri Lanka, the United Nations Office in Geneva, and London for one of India’s leading newspapers, The Hindu. He has reported on conflicts in Sri Lanka, the former Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland, as well as major global issues such as world trade negotiations, human rights, arms control and disarmament.

He has worked for the United Nations in Geneva and been a regular commentator on South Asian issues for BBC World Service Television. He has a Masters degree in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and a BA in Economics from Madras University. He is the author of Twenty-first Century Plague: The Story of SARS.

More than 40 potential applicants to the Master of Journalism (MJ) programme attended a JMSC seminar in Shanghai last week, chaired by the Centre’s Director of Broadcasting, Jim Laurie.

Reginald Chua, Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post (SCMP), and Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, spoke to about 40 students attending Vaudine England’s final Freelance Journalism class of the semester.