Lecturer
Doreen Weisenhaus is Director of the Media Law Project and Associate Professor of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Eliot Hall, Room 113, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
email: doreen@hku.hk
A specialist in media law and ethics, Doreen is director of the JMSC’s Media Law Project, a resource for students, journalists, scholars, lawyers and other media professionals in the region. She is author of the book, Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals (HKU Press 2007).
Book website: http://hongkongmedialaw.net
Prior to joining HKU in January 2000, Doreen was city editor of The New York Times where she helped supervise coverage of New York City, with particular responsibility for criminal justice and the courts; labor and the workplace; local business and finance; social services, and immigration. She also was the first legal editor of The New York Times Magazine before becoming its law and politics editor. Prior to joining The New York Times, Weisenhaus was editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal, a leading publication for lawyers in the U.S, where she led award-winning coverage of such issues as the death penalty and environmental racism.
Doreen 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.
At the JMSC, her research areas include press freedom, media law, ethics, newsroom practices, media ownership trends and journalism history. Her other publications include book chapters for National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny (HKU Press 2005), Media and Development in Asia: Regional Perspectives (AMIC Asian Communication Series 2008) and the International Encyclopedia of Communication (Wiley-Blackwell 2008).