admin, Author at Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong

24 October 2019

Published by admin at 24 October 2019

Annie Lab

Strapline is our renewed effort to promote a healthy dose of skepticism coupled with self-reflective, critical thinking mindset — with practical digital proficiency. Fact-checking techniques and sufficient knowledge of computer algorithms, social media bots, online trolls, censorship mechanism, digital economy, and other related fields are all part of our target topics.

12 July 2019

Published by admin at 12 July 2019

Lyn Yang named fifth winner of the Mick Deane Scholarship for Video Journalism

By George W. Russell With her video storytelling covering such diverse subjects as Hong Kong’s last traditional food stalls and a man who makes mahjong tiles, Lyn Yang (MJ 2019) pays attention to details. That […]

10 July 2019

Published by admin at 10 July 2019

WeChatscope

WeChatscope aims to make censored articles of WeChat’s public accounts in China open access. The project is designed and developed by a research team at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC), The University of Hong Kong, monitoring a list of selected WeChat public accounts and detecting removed contents.

24 June 2019

Published by admin at 24 June 2019

Media-X Prototype Fund Announces Inaugural Winners for 2019

Hong Kong, 24 June 2019. The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre has announced the two inaugural grantees for its Media-X Prototype Fund. The two awardees are “Sustainable Asia”, a podcasting team […]

21 December 2018

Published by admin at 21 December 2018

Vale, Barry N. Kalb

By Cal Wong It is with great sadness that we heard the news of the passing of Barry Kalb on Wednesday, 19 December 2018, at the age of 75. Barry was a long-time lecturer at […]

29 October 2018

Published by admin at 29 October 2018

Eduard Fernández

MJ 2018, Eduard Fernández, Publishing Editor, Dow Jones Newswires, Barcelona

After years of working as a journalist in Asia, I felt I needed to strengthen my skills to move forward in my career path. JMSC courses helped me to finally be able to shoot and edit my own video stories, have a better grasp of all kind of multimedia online tools, and gain an expertise in financial journalism, a skill that has helped me find my current job as a reporter for a financial publication in Hong Kong.

22 October 2018

Published by admin at 22 October 2018

JMSC launches Strapline, a video series all about news literacy

The Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) today announced the launch of a video series called Strapline: News Literacy for the Rest of Us on YouTube, Facebook, and Medium. Dr. Masato Kajimoto, Assistant Professor of Practice, is […]

22 October 2018

Published by admin at 22 October 2018

Suhas Bhat

MJ 2018, Suhas Bhat, Copywriter, Hill+Knowlton Strategies
The MJ programme has something for everyone. It is also a great learning environment under established practitioners for a diverse club of young journalists from around the world. In particular, I was amazed by the level of empathy on display among the faculty at Elliot Hall. It's a family.