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24 August 2013

Published by Stephen Gilbert at 24 August 2013

JMSC Professor Spends Summer Retracing 2001 Journey Across Afghanistan

JMSC professor Kevin Sites spent his summer the way he has spent much of his professional life – swimming with warlords, having his life threatened, nearly getting hit in a mortar attack, and stepping into the middle of […]

31 July 2013

Published by Stephen Gilbert at 31 July 2013

JMSC Alum Joins JMSC Professor to Report on Afghanistan

“If I was with the Taliban now, and I saw you … I would kill you.” According to Abdul Matin Sarfraz (MJ, 2013), these words were spoken to him in July by a former fighter […]

10 April 2013

Published by Stephen Gilbert at 10 April 2013

Boing Boing’s Jardin Discusses Cancer, the Internet and Identity with JMSC Class

The Internet has created a new kind of celebrity, turning writers who are able to produce compelling content and build vivid online identities into superstars. Xeni Jardin, who spoke by Skype to the Journalism and Media […]

20 March 2013

Published by Stephen Gilbert at 20 March 2013

JMSC Class Launches Hong Kong’s First Domestic Worker Project

A group of students at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) has launched a new online journalism program called the Domestic Worker Project, the first of its kind in Hong Kong. The program will […]

28 January 2013

Published by Stephen Gilbert at 28 January 2013

New Book on War by JMSC Associate Professor Kevin Sites Released Today

For the past ten years, Kevin Sites has reported on war, conflict and disaster all over the world, for the leading American television networks, and then as Yahoo’s first correspondent. His second book based on […]

1 January 2013

Published by jmsc at 1 January 2013

Jan 5: Talk – Mobile Media Practice in the Digital Age

The emergence of mobile (backpack) journalism is the story of how passion and necessity intersect. It’s about telling the story without changing it, reporting with less intrusion and more flexibility. The reporters’ footprints shrink, while the stories they […]

23 September 2012

Published by Angharad Law at 23 September 2012

JMSC Professor Wins Fellowship for Trauma Journalism

JMSC Associate Professor Kevin Sites has been named as one of the recipients of the prestigious Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship for his reportage on the darker side of human experience. The Dart Center for Journalism […]

22 August 2012

Published by Angharad Law at 22 August 2012

Two More Experienced Journalists Join JMSC Teaching Staff

Two experienced journalists have joined the JMSC’s teaching staff. Kevin Sites has been appointed Associate Professor of Practice. He will start teaching in the Autumn semester; his initial courses are Introduction to TV and Television […]