Director & Professor
yychan@hku.hk
Ying Chan, an award-winning journalist and Hong Kong native, established The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre in September 1999.
She set up the first professional postgraduate journalism programme in Hong Kong, launched Hong Kong’s first fellowships for working journalists, and forged extensive ties between HKU and the news industry.
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 taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Chan has a bachelor’s degree (social sciences) from HKU and a Masters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.










