The JMSC has added Documentary Studies to the specialist areas available for Master of Journalism students.

The course will be offered alongside Business and Financial Journalism; Environmental, Health and Science Journalism; and China Studies, the three specialist subject areas that…

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.

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

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…