More than half of last year’s master’s intake chose to specialise in one of three specialist areas of study introduced for Master of Journalism students in 2010-2011. Twenty-six students specialised in Business and Financial Journalism, four took Environmental, Health and Science Journalism and opted for China Studies.

Mandy Lai (MJ 2011) describes her internship at the Global Times in Beijing. The English newspaper is a subsidiary of the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.

Lai was allocated to the Nation page, which…