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.

Cliff Buddle, Special Projects Editor at the South China Morning Post, has been a reporter and editor for more than 30 years in London and Hong Kong.

He began his career covering cases at the Central Criminal Court in London. He was brought to Hong Kong by the SCMP in 1994, and as chief court reporter he covered landmark constitutional cases following the city’s return to China.  He has worked as an opinion page editor, news editor and chief leader writer.  He was deputy editor for six years, and as acting editor-in-chief in 2011/12 he oversaw a major revamp and redesign of the newspaper.

He has a Master’s Degree in Human Rights Law from the University of Hong Kong and has passed the Common Professional Examination, a post-graduation qualification in law.

Chan Pui King
Honorary Lecturer
puikingchan@gmail.com

Chan Pui-king is a veteran investigative journalist who also has worked in media management for nearly two decades. She was editor-in-chief of Next Magazine where she helped lead teams on investigative projects involving political, corporate and business issues. She also contributed reporting for the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on a tobacco-related project. She was the first research fellow of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong in 1999 and wrote a guide on access to public information in Hong Kong that has become an authoritative reference for journalists. Part of the work was published in Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals. She has a BSocSci degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Darcy Christ
Honorary Lecturer
darcy@1000camels.com

Darcy W. Christ has been a web developer for over 18 years. He has worked in news media and helped establish content and social media strategies for several private, non-profit and educational organizations. With a background in philosophy, Darcy became a programmer as a way to continue his interest in systems, both logical and linguistic. Early on, his interests in open source and open content focused his work. He has strong programming skills, but in the last decade has moved towards writing and discussing the social side of technology, as a way to improve how we think about and use the ubiquitous systems in our lives.

Lauren Dockett
Honorary Lecturer
dockett1@hku.hk

Lauren Dockett is a journalist, author and editor. In her twenty years of reporting for radio, print and online media, she’s investigated ultra-liberal city politics in Northern California, gay rights in Havana, Cuba, and toxic schools in New York City, and covered celebrities, immigrant communities, environmental struggles, and arts and culture. In a parallel career in book publishing, she’s been a marketing and publicity manager and held executive and senior editor roles in New York City, where she acquired and developed influential nonfiction titles in the areas of gender politics, crime, social justice, and health and aging. She has a degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is a recipient of the Richard J Blood Award for Excellence in Reporting, and her three books,The Deepest Blue, Facing 30, and Sex Talk, have been translated into six languages.

Gerry Doyle
Honorary Lecturer
gerrydoyle@gmail.com

Gerry Doyle is the Assistant Business Editor for Asia at the International Herald Tribune and has worked as a journalist for nearly 20 years in the United States, the Middle East and Hong Kong. As a senior editor at The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, he ran a team of reporters covering crime, courts and national security, which produced stories including the torture trial of Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Issa bin Zayed, the progress against human trafficking in the UAE, and gasoline shortages in one of the world’s most oil-rich nations.

Before that, he worked for almost a decade at the Chicago Tribune, both as an editor and a reporter, and covered some of the city’s most high-profile, as well as the Chicago Police Department  and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office. While working at the Tribune, he also taught editing to graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill school of journalism.

He holds degrees in journalism and philosophy from the University of Kansas and is an alumnus of the Dow Jones editing program.

His first novel, “From the Depths,” was published in 2007 and was named a finalist for best debut novel of the year by the International Thriller Writers.

Jeremiah Foo
Honorary Lecturer
jeremiah.foo@gmail.com

Jeremiah Foo brings 18 years of technology and media experience in parts of Asia stretching from India to China to his native Malaysia.

In addition to teaching at the JMSC, he teaches digital and media-related production technology at Shantou University’s Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication. He also serves as the school’s technical chief and manager of the its Convergent Media Lab.

He is co-founder of the eMuse group of companies in Malaysia, which creates media content. He served as assistant vice president of Asian Artiste & Repertoire, where he oversaw the building of the publishing division and product development of Singapore-based MediaStream Limited, a producer, publisher and distributor of music and visuals. He has written for In•Tech, a weekly technology pullout published by Star Publications in Malaysia, covering new and emerging technologies. He helped set up Mizzima.tv, a Burmese station based in New Delhi.

Angharad Hampshire
Honorary Lecturer
angharad.hampshire@googlemail.com

Angharad Hampshire worked on many radio programmes, including news, current and consumer affairs as well as arts, documentaries and other programmes while working for the BBC for more than 12 years.

She has reported for the BBC World Service in the U.K., China, Nepal, Afghanistan and Africa. In 2007, she won a BBC Onassis Bursary to go to Mount Everest where she recorded material for two documentaries. She has also made documentaries in China and Tibet. She has trained more than 50 journalists for the BBC in Afghanistan and Africa.

She reports on arts, culture and science in Hong Kong for the BBC World Service and is a regular contributor in print to Muse Magazine and the South China Morning Post. She has an MA in French from the University of Edinburgh and a PGCE from the Institute of Education at the University of London.

Barry Kalb
Honorary Lecturer
barryathku@yahoo.com

Barry Kalb started his career in journalism in 1967 at the Washington Evening Star. After eight years, he moved to Hong Kong in 1975, briefly for NBC News, and then as a staff correspondent for CBS News. In 1979, he joined Time magazine as Eastern Europe bureau chief, based in West Berlin, and subsequently moved to Rome, New York and back to Hong Kong with Time.

He took a 14-year break from journalism to become a restauranteur in Hong Kong, finally leaving that business in 2002. In late 2002, he returned to journalism, as an editor at the Voice of America bureau in Hong Kong.

He has covered the Watergate corruption scandal in Washington D.C., the deaths of Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung and the return to power of Deng Xiaoping in China, the beginnings of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in Rome, among many other stories.

Matthew Leung
Honorary Lecturer
matleung@hku.hk

Matthew Leung joined the JMSC in 2003 as creative director responsible for developing, designing and publishing educational and promotional materials. He has more than 15 years experience in editorial production, including design, graphics and desktop publishing, and in exhibition, museum, showroom and event production. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia.

Irene Jay Liu
Honorary Lecturer

Irene Jay Liu is a news editor for data at Thomson Reuters, based in Hong Kong. Previously, she was senior reporter and special projects team leader at the South China Morning Post. She taught computer-assisted reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and holds degrees from Yale University and Columbia University.

Rob McBride
Honorary Lecturer
rob@robmcbride.com

Rob McBride began his career in the early 1980s, reporting from the Falkland Islands in the aftermath of the South Atlantic Conflict. After working for commercial radio and then Granada TV in Manchester, he transferred to London in 1989 and worked for Thames TV, ITN and TV-AM.

In 1992, he joined a news agency to work in Asia for international broadcasters ranging from Channel 9 of Australia to the BBC and Sky News in Britain.

He also has worked for CNBC and National Geographic Television. In 1999, he became a freelance pioneer in Asia of video journalism. He has worked extensively in the region for Star TV, and regularly for companies as diverse as PBS network in the US and UN Television.

Kees Metselaar
Honorary Lecturer
photokees@yahoo.com

Kees Metselaar graduated as a scientist from the Free University in Amsterdam before he became a full time photojournalist in the mid eighties. His first big story was the fall of dictator Marcos in the Philippines in 1986. He photographed famine in the Sudan and the mujahedin in Afghanistan. In the early 1990’s, after he had moved his base to Hong Kong, he concentrated on South-East Asia. He was in Bangladesh when a giant cyclone killed more than 100,000 people and solf those pictures around the world.

He was in Indonesia during the fall of another dictator, president Suharto , and has photographed all over this vast country.
His photographs are sold by his Dutch agency Hollandse Hoogte. He has exhibited in Europe and Hong Kong.
More recently in Hong Kong , he has been documenting the old market and life styles of Central and Western Districts.

Nancy Tong
Visiting Associate Professor
filmtong@hku.hk

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.

Ruby Yang
Honorary Lecturer
yangrubyzy@gmail.com

Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic
film has earned her an Academy Award, two Academy nominations, and numerous other
international awards, including an Emmy, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award,
and the Global Health Council Media Award.

Yang’s films include The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won an Oscar in 2007, The Warriors of Qiugang, which received an Academy nomination for best documentary short in 2011, and Tongzhi in Love, which was short-listed in the same category in 2008.

Dr Burkhart is a veteran journalist who has made his mark in the profession and in journalism education.  His impressive career as reporter, editor and writer has spanned four decades and three renowned news organizations, namely The Miami Herald, the Associated Press and The New York Times.  He has held teaching positions with the journalism departments at the University of Arizona and the American University in Cairo and lectured at Stanford University and Columbia University.  He was a member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team in 2001 and received three Fulbright Fellowships to teach in Nigeria, Uganda and Malaysia.  He has an M.A. in mass communications from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in public administration from Arizona State University. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

Peter Herford
Visiting Professor

A 27-year veteran of CBS News, Peter Herford was a producer for 60 Minutes and the CBS Eevening News with Walter Cronkite, Bureau Chief in the US Midwest, Paris and Vietnam during the war. He rose to executive ranks as vice president of the news division.

Currently, Herford is a Visiting Professor at JMSC HKU and a Professor at the Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication and Executive Director of the International Media Institute at the Shantou University.

Prior to joining the J-school at Shantou U in March 2003, Herford was the Senior Executive for Production for Public Radio International in the United States.

He taught for six years at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and was director of the University of Chicago’s William Benton Fellowships in Broadcast Journalism program. Herford has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia College and the Graduate School of International Affairs of Columbia University.

Jim Laurie
Honorary Associate Professor

Laurie  has been associated with the University of Hong Kong and the Journalism and Media Studies Center since September 2005. As director of broadcasting and senior teaching consultant from 2005 to December 2011, he developed the radio and television components of the JMSC undergraduate and graduate MJ curriculums.   He taught courses in television writing, documentary film, and the history of television news as well as contributing to courses in television production, management and ‘covering China.’

Laurie is a veteran of more than 40 years in television and the winner of several Emmy and Peabody Awards for broadcasting.  He began his television news career at NBC News in Vietnam in 1972.   He served as a foreign correspondent for ABC News from 1978 through 1999.   Later he developed news channels in India for News Corporation’s STAR TV, and launched his own production company.  He built the JMSC’s first production center, producing university videos and two television series for the BBC in conjunction with the University of Hong Kong School of Business.   See also  www.jimlaurie.com

Raymond Wong
Honorary Professor

Raymond R. Wong began his 50–year journalism career at 17 as a reporter in a small Midwestern town in the U.S. Six newspapers and 13 years later, he became the national news editor of the Louisville (KY) Courier–Journal. In 1968, he returned to Hong Kong where he edited the Hong Kong Standard for two years, before joining the Communication Department of the then Hong Kong Baptist College. He was with the College for seven years, the last three being the department head. He joined Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB) as News Controller in 1977 and retired in 2004 as an Assistant General Manager overseeing news and other non–entertainment related departments.

Upon retirement, Wong was named a Distinguished Fellow of the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2005–06, Wong chaired the government–appointed Committee on Review of Public Service Broadcasting in Hong Kong. Wong has been an Honorary Professor here at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre since 2000 and a Consultant Professor at the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai since 1998. Wong gained his Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Missouri, and was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He has since received scores of local, state, national and international awards in print, television journalism and media management. In 1998 he was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star for “Distinguished Service to Education and Development of Journalism and Mass Communication in Hong Kong.”

Arnold Zeitlin
Visiting Professor

Arnold Zeitlin has been a visiting professor in Guangzhou, teaching students journalism practice and training faculty in the new, English-language journalism programme at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (www.gdufs.edu.cn) and serving as consultant to news media organizations and other universities in China. He is managing director and chief executive officer of a U.S.-based worldwide news media consulting firm, Editorial Research & Reporting Associates (ERRA www.newerra.com), with much of its work in China. Over a 30-year period, he was a bureau chief and overseas correspondent for the Associated Press as well as Asia vice president for United Press International, and Asia center director for the Freedom Forum.

David Bandurski BA (Indiana), MSJ (Northwestern)
Research Associate
dbandurs@hkucc.hku.hk

Public Health Media Programme

Christiane Berthiaume
Research Officer
berthiau@hku.hk

Lee Foon-Shing BEng (CUHK)
Web Producer
foonlee@hku.hk

Mental Health Promotion Programme

Chan Chun Hong BSc (HKPU); MSc (CUHK)
Research Assistant
chanch22@hku.hk