A Burmese Master of Journalism graduate has recently returned to his native country, and the New York Times website has published his story describing how it felt to return home after years of exile.

While happy to be home,…

A group of JMSC undergraduates have just enjoyed an experience normally reserved for professional journalists: covering an international event, planning and producing their own stories, and seeing their work published by major international news organizations.

The seven Bachelor of Journalism…

Peggy Valcke, a leading European media law specialist, will discuss the convergence of television and the Internet and the regulatory challenges this convergence is creating.  The talk will take place at the University of Hong Kong on Monday, April 2.…

Diane Stormont, a much loved Senior Teaching Consultant at the JMSC and well-known journalist, died in Hong Kong after a long fight with cancer on Wednesday, March 14, aged 52.

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Han-Teng Liao, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, will give a talk titled “All the News That’s Fit to Click: Journalism on the Web” at the JMSC on Friday, March 23, 2012.

Liao will talk about how…

Four JMSC Bachelor of Journalism students covered the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) meetings in Beijing in March for two of Hong Kong’s leading newspapers.

Andrea Chen (BJ Year 2)  and Mimi Tong…

Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation to U.S.Secretary of State of Hillary Clinton, will deliver a speech titled “21st Century Statecraft: U.S. Diplomacy in a Networked Era” at the University of Hong Kong on Monday, March 19.

The speech will…

The “social media,” like Facebook, Sina Weibo and Twitter, have allowed millions of formerly anonymous individuals to broadcast their opinions to the broad public.  Now, a researcher at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (http://jmsc.hku.hk) is combining those individual posts…

Seven JMSC undergraduates will head to Japan next month to cover the first anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami for international news organisations.

The March 7-12 trip has been organised by JMSC Teaching Consultant, Masato Kajimoto, to provide…

A JMSC student team assigned to cover a recent conference arranged by the medical faculty’s Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine impressed the organisers with their professionalism.

The six, chosen from JMSC Associate Professor Thomas Abraham‘s  Reporting Health and…