Welcome to the course website for JMSC0019 Media Law and Ethics at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, the University of Hong Kong. This course examines the ethical and legal issues affecting journalism and journalists in Hong Kong and beyond. We cover such topics as press freedom, defamation, privacy, information access, ethical standard and newsgathering techniques. Your lecturer for Fall 2010 is Doreen Weisenhaus, Associate Professor, and Director, Media Law Project.
Doreen Weisenhaus - November 30, 2010 @ 12:30 pm
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Thank you all for a terrific semester! It was a lively, provocative class with much discussion and debate! I really enjoyed it and hope you all did too.
The final take-home exam has been distributed. (For an online copy, see Exam page to the left). If you have any questions, please email me and I will respond to the entire class. The exam is due by 5 pm Friday, December 10, 2010. No late copies accepted! Please email me (doreen@hku.hk) the soft copy and leave a hard copy at the JMSC office. Thanks!
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Doreen Weisenhaus - November 18, 2010 @ 4:11 pm
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Some thoughts and updates for the coming week: Tutorials: Advice: Thanks for the terrific tutorials this week and I am looking forward to the upcoming ones. If I may suggest that student teams on opposing sides NOT share strategies/content in advance so to make the debates a bit more spontaneous. Second, there was some confusion [...]
Doreen Weisenhaus - November 8, 2010 @ 1:35 pm
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Just a reminder to everyone that tutorial presentations will begin Tuesday, Nov. 16. Please check the schedule on the tutorial page for your presentation. Also, we will have our second and final quiz in two weeks on Nov. 22. Topics to be covered will include defamation, access to information, official secrets and protecting sources. If [...]
Doreen Weisenhaus - November 1, 2010 @ 2:06 pm
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Please see the Tutorial page for a copy of a past exam question that our tutorial leaders will take us through for our sessions. While we didn’t finish the lecture covering the fair comment defense, I think we can still try to address the parts of the exam question that might deal with it. Please [...]
Doreen Weisenhaus - October 12, 2010 @ 8:49 am
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Please take the extra time over reading week to get a good start on the defamation readings. I’ll go over in the Oct. 12 tutorial which readings we’ll focus on for the first session on defamation.
Doreen Weisenhaus - September 27, 2010 @ 3:23 pm
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As mentioned in class, due to speaker availability, I had to switch the order of next week’s class. We will have Privacy, Obscenity and Visual Journalism. Please check the Readings page for updated readings.
