The Journalism and Media Studies Centre brings professional journalism education to Hong Kong’s premier university, creating an environment for vibrant interaction among students from Hong Kong, mainland China, Asia and the rest of the world. From day one, students develop convergent skills enabling them operate comfortably in all aspects of the industry, ranging from print, audio, video, multi-media to interactive online journalism.
Cedric Sam is a programmer and researcher at the JMSC working in the field of data and computational journalism.
Cedric is the main coder behind the JMSC’s social media data project and its WeiboScope. He is also…
Director & Professor
yychan@hku.hk
Ying Chan, an award-winning journalist and Hong Kong native, established The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre in September 1999.
She set up the first professional postgraduate journalism programme in Hong Kong, launched Hong Kong’s first fellowships for working journalists, and forged extensive ties between HKU and the news industry.
Chan’s honours include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
She taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Chan has a bachelor’s degree (social sciences) from HKU and a Masters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Stay abreast of developments within the China media via the China Media Map produced by the JMSC’s China Media Project (CMP)
Play back the Admissions Briefing by JMSC faculty
Journalism needs a new code of ethical conduct for the digital age, said Aidan White, a senior fellow at the Media Diversity Institute in London.
He said such a code should emphasize several points: tell the…
More than 40 of this year’s full-time Master of Journalism students have been placed in internships at prestigious media organisations over the winter break.
The placements are in a wide range of organisations spread over a large geographical area. They…
The assignment would make a hardened war correspondent tremble: cover a pair of science camps spent locked up overnight in a museum with 300 teenagers on two consecutive Fridays.
Multiple-media coverage by MJ and BJ student volunteers of two overnight science fairs for high schools for the Department of Engineering, the Faculty of Science and HKU 100. November, 2011.
The JMSC’s China Media Project regularly publishes books documenting and commenting on the evolution of the media in China written and edited by its staff and fellows. View them here.
