25 July 2009

China Launches Arabic TV Channel

Professor Ying Chan, JMSC Director, is quoted in an article for Al Jazeera.net, dated July, 25, 2009:  China launches Arabic TV channel
13 June 2009

Here is the News: TV Host Accused of Spying

David Bandurski, JMSC Research Associate, is quoted in an article by The Sydney Morning Herald, dated June 13, 2009: Here is the news: TV host accused of spying
20 April 2009

How One JMSC Alum Has Made a Living, and an Art, out of Freelancing

Ivan Broadhead received his Master of Journalism degree from the JMSC in 2006. He was asked to recount his rather exceptional experiences since as a freelance writer. Excerpts:
15 April 2009

JMSC Alum Uses Freelancing as Route into Mainland Media

Leanne Wang, who received her Master of Journalism diploma from the JMSC in 2008, turned freelancing into a staff job at a leading mainland business news organization. She recommends this path to other writers:
15 February 2009

Some Billionaires Are Just Regular Folks, as JMSC Alum Learns

Journalists are usually lucky if they can get big-time businessmen like Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing to talk to them at all. JMSC alum Samantha Wang (BJ 2008), who works as a reporter for the Chinese-language Ming Pao newspaper in Hong Kong, got a brief interview with Li in early February – and then received a call back from Hong Kong’s richest man, to make sure she had understood the points he made the first time around.