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.

Director’s Message: Ying Chan           Slideshow:Over The Years

Our beloved teacher and colleague Diane Stormont passed away Wednesday night at Queen Mary Hospital after a brave battle with cancer. She was 52. We’ll miss her dearly.
Slideshow: Diane Over The Years

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…

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…

Google will fund two full-tuition scholarships for Master of Journalism candidates with solid computer technology backgrounds.  The scholarships will provide support for the field of data journalism, one of the new areas of focus at the JMSC.

The scholarships are…

The JMSC will partner with public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) to produce Cantonese news content for a weekly radio programme during the spring semester.

The University of Hong Kong, the JMSC’s parent institution, is one of five…

A book about Chinese architectural design by Sylvia Chan, a graduate of the JMSC’s Master of Journalism programme  – Writing In(to) Architecture: China’s Architectural Design and Construction Since 1949 – is due for publication in March.

The bilingual (English and…

The opportunities for print reporters are greater in Asia today than in America or Europe.

That’s according to Lauren Dockett, JMSC teaching assistant and internship consultant.

Dockett, who joined the JMSC staff in September 2011, hails from New York,…