3 October 2012

Stop civilian attacks: Afghan Pulitzer Prize winner’s plea to insurgents

An award-winning Afghan photojournalist has appealed to militant groups to end violence against Afghan civilians. Massoud Hossaini, who won the Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for his photograph of a grief-stricken girl in the aftermath […]
25 September 2012

News Literacy Project in Development at JMSC

The JMSC has joined forces with Stony Brook University in New York State to expand “news literacy” teaching into the curricula at both The University of Hong Kong and other universities in Asia. News literacy […]
25 September 2012

Sept 28: Talk – Pulitzer Prize winning Afghan Photojournalist Massoud Hossaini

Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, Massoud Hossaini, will show his work and share his experience as a photojournalist in his native Afghanistan on Friday, September 28 at the University of Hong Kong. Massoud Hossaini is a […]
24 September 2012

Sept 28: Career Talk – Digital Entrepreneurship for Journalists

JMSC alumnus and member of member of the Emerging Businesses Team for Microsoft‘s Developer and Platform Evangelism Division, Douglas Crets, will deliver a talk about digital entrepreneurship for journalists at the JMSC on Friday, September […]
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 […]
21 September 2012

Attitudes Towards Environmental Films Changing

Cosima Dannoritzer, an award-winning German TV documentary and filmmaker, said she has felt a sea change in attitudes towards films about environmentalism over the last five years. Dannoritzer was addressing Professor Miklos Sukosd’s Environmental Communication class […]
18 September 2012

HKU Starts Search for New JMSC Director

The University of Hong Kong has launched a global search to find the next Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC). The search committee consists of Hong Kong University professors and is headed […]
17 September 2012

Diplomat Calls for Religious Tolerance

by Georgia McCafferty An American diplomat has called on the international community to promote religious tolerance and freedom of speech following an attack that killed the American ambassador and three State Department employees in Libya […]