30 October 2024

Gigi Tang

BJ 2024, Gigi Tang, Executive Officer, HKSAR Government
One of the greatest strengths of HKU Journalism is its diverse and rich course content, which extends beyond the news industry. My favourite course throughout my studies was Strategic Communication, taught by a senior executive from FleishmanHillard, one of the leading international PR and marketing agencies. For our final project, we were tasked with designing a communication campaign and presenting it to real clients from major firms. Winning the prize and receiving excellent feedback from the clients was one of the happiest moments of my academic life. The wide variety of courses offered by HKU Journalism provides students with well-rounded insights and diverse career possibilities for the future.
30 October 2024

Matthew Cheng

BJ 2022, Gabriel Fung, MPhil IR Candidate, University of Oxford
HKU Journalism has been a fantastic place to learn and explore. The rich and flexible curriculum allowed me to take diverse courses in journalism, public relations, media production, and more. All professors I’ve met are dedicated teachers who have ample knowledge and experience to share. Outside the classroom, students are encouraged to gain real-world experience from the get-go.
29 October 2024

JMSC Held BJ Admissions Talk and A.I. News Anchor Workshop at HKU Information Day

The JMSC was thrilled to welcome such a great turnout of prospective students and parents who were eager to learn more about our Bachelor of Journalism programme (BJ, #JS6822) — a unique double-major degree that focuses on strategic communications and multimedia storytelling in the digital age.
29 October 2024

Game Changers: How Factual Contents Affect Online Video Communities?

The JMSC invites Zhang Yuan, vice general manager & head of Bilibili Documentary and Mini Dramas, to share how Bilibili utilises factual content to gain traction and popularity among online video communities. As an experienced filmmaker, Zhang has won the Houston International Film Festival Documentary Gold Award and multiple top news and broadcasting awards in China.
24 October 2024

Covering AI – Go beyond the hype and dig deep into the black box

To help us explore how A.I. can be held accountable, the JMSC invites Lam Thuy Vo, the investigative reporter at Documented, to share her knowledge in data journalism and perspective on the knowledge imbalance towards A.I. in the journalism industry.
23 October 2024

JMSC Hosted MJ Admissions Webinar and Announced New Concentrations

JMSC Director Ruby Yang, MJ programme director Ting Shi, and senior professional practitioner Neil Gough presented an overview of the MJ programme and introduced the new Business and Finance (BFC) concentration and A.I. concentration.
18 October 2024

Film Screening — 20 Days in Mariupol

JMSC is co-hosting a screening of the winner of the 2023 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film — 20 Days in Mariupol, with the EU Office to Hong Kong and Macao on 9 November, 2024. The documentary offers a rare window into the practices of conflict zone reporters and an unflinching yet anguishing account of the 20 days AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov and colleagues spent covering Mariupol at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. To help us explore how journalists can embrace AI technologies, the JMSC invites Yan Lu, the managing data editor at ThePaper.CN, to share her expertise on data-driven storytelling as a journalist and editor.