Cedric is the main coder behind the JMSC’s social media data project and its WeiboScope. He is also a participant in its open government data project.

Since joining the JMSC is February 2010, Cedric has worked on the China Media Project website and provided expertise on technical matters. He is the teaching assistant for the data journalism course.

Prior to coming to Hong Kong, Cedric worked for CBC/Radio-Canada in his hometown of Montreal.

From 2007 to 2009, he was assigned to Radio-Canada.ca and won acclaim for his work on its televised live electoral maps in 2008.

His data projects with La Presse during the last general election in Canada, including a map of political financing, were viewed by more than half a million pairs of eyes and won him the Canadian Online Publishing Award for best cross-platform initiative.

Cedric completed undergraduate studies in Biochemistry and Computer Science at McGill University in 2004, and is currently putting the finishing touches to a part-time Master of Design (Interaction Design Specialism) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design.

Yuen Ying Chan, Professor and Director

Director & Professor
yychan@hku.hk

Ying Chan is a writer, educator, and the founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

As an academic unit of HKU, the JMSC offers professional graduate and undergraduate degrees in journalism, and MPhil and PhD degrees.

She was also the founding dean (2003-2011) of the journalism school at Shantou University in China.

Prior to joining HKU in 1998, Chan spent 23 years working as a journalist in New York City, where she reported for the New York Daily News, NBC News, and a number of Chinese language dailies.

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 is the co-Public Lead of Creative Commons Hong Kong, a board member of the Media Development Loan Fund, an investment fund for independent media worldwide and the chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Informed Societies.

In addition to creating digital media for the journalism programme, Kevin also teaches the subject to postgraduate and undergraduate students.

Over the years Kevin has produced work for industry leading and innovative companies such as Ubisoft, NOW Sports (HK), Revision3, G4techTV, Iconoculture and DirecTV.

At Ubisoft, Kevin produced and developed video game teasers and the Developer Diary series for the AAA title Tom Clancy’s Endwar, garnering over 200,000 views.

During his time at Revision3, Kevin co-created the popular internet show inDigital: Your Life in Gear, a show about the newest in gadgets for technophiles.

The show became the second highest viewed show of its kind averaging 80,000 downloads every release. As a veteran of the media industry, he is always dreaming of innovative techniques to balance creativity and plausibility.

Kevin was born and raised in Los Angeles and educated in the USA and Hong Kong.

Rusty Todd, Visiting Professor/ Director of Business Journalism

Visiting Professor/ Director of Business Journalism
rtodd@hku.hk

Rusty Todd comes to the University of Hong Kong from the University of Texas Journalism School, where he is a professor specializing in editing and business journalism. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Todd lived in Hong Kong for nine years in the 1980s and ’90s, when he was a reporter and news editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal and an executive with Dow Jones/Telerate. He was founding editor of the Dow Jones Emerging Market Report. Earlier, he served as state editor at the Austin American-Statesman and city editor at the Daily Missourian at the University of Missouri. Todd and his wife Sarah have two daughters, both born in Hong Kong.

Dr. Fu is Research Assistant Professor at the JMSC. His research focuses on the media’s influence on mental health/suicide, health communication, research method, measurement, and statistics in journalism. He has a PhD from the JMSC, a MA in Social Sciences and a MPhil in Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained an undergraduate degree in Engineering from HKU. He was a journalist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal. His CV can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/fukingwa/.

Teaching Consultant
shexiang@hku.hk

John Young is former associate director of the JMSC.

Before coming to HKU, he served as the Deputy Director of California’s Office of Trade and Investment for China and Hong Kong.

Prior to that, he served as Special Assistant and Counsel to San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. He oversaw the development of the mayor’s first annual budget, implementing legislative and administrative actions that enabled the Brown administration to transform the previous administration’s budget deficit to a budget surplus.

He is also an experienced freelance journalist. He has a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, and a BA in Political Science and East Asian Studies from University of California at Berkeley.

Nancy Tong has been producing documentaries for 30 years. She began her career as a news reporter in Hong Kong with HK-TVB.  She moved to New York City in 1981 and worked as an independent film producer.

Among her dozens of projects were Who Killed Vincent Chin? which was nominated in 1989 for an Academy Award; In the Name of the Emperor, which was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1995; and Cancer: From Evolution to Revolution, which won a George Foster Peabody Award in 2000.

From 1999 – 2007, Tong taught documentary production at The School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. Her current projects include teaching media production to Muslim women in China, Pakistan, and Indonesia;  ten short documentaries for the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City; and a documentary on a reconstruction project in the Forbidden City of Beijing for The China Heritage Fund.

Doreen Weisenhaus teaches media law and ethics. Prior to joining the Journalism and Media Studies Centre in 2000, she was city editor of The New York Times. She also was the first legal editor of The New York Times Magazine before becoming its law and politics editor. Before that, Weisenhaus was editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal, a leading publication for lawyers in the U.S. that won several major journalism awards during her tenure.

She 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.  She is the author of the book, Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals (HKU Press 2007).

Rusty Todd comes to the University of Hong Kong from the University of Texas Journalism School, where he is a professor specializing in editing and business journalism. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Todd lived in Hong Kong for nine years in the 1980s and 90s, when he was a reporter and news editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal and an executive with Dow Jones/Telerate. He was founding editor of the Dow Jones Emerging Market Report. Earlier, he served as state editor at the Austin American-Statesman and city editor at the Daily Missourian at the University of Missouri.

He is currently an editor at the Texas Observer. Todd and his wife Sarah have two daughters, both born in Hong Kong.

Miklos Sukosd is an associate professor at the JMSC.

Previously he was academic director of the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University, where he also taught as associate professor of political science.

He served in major international media research and consultancy projects, including as Chair of the COST A30 Action East of West: Setting a New Central Eastern European Media Research Agenda (2005–2009), and key expert in the EU project An independent study on indicators for media pluralism (2008–2009).

His research focuses on media in China and post-communist Central and Eastern Europe; journalism, sustainability and the environment; and media and Buddhism. He has published over 20 books and several book chapters and journal articles about media and politics.

Miklos has an MA in sociology from Harvard University and a PhD in political science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

He has received several research awards and fellowships, including Fulbright Fellowship at Columbia University, Japan Foundation Fellowship at the University of Tokyo, ACLS Research Scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.), and a General Research Fund grant, Hong Kong.

His latest publications include:

- Media, Nationalism and European Identities (co-edited with K. Jakubowicz; Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2011)

- Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives (co-edited with B. Dobek-Ostrowska, M. Glowacki, and K. Jakubowicz; Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2010)

- Finding the Right Place on the Map: Central and Eastern European Media Change in Global Perspective (co-edited with K. Jakubowicz; Bristol: Intellect Books, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008).