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13 June 2012

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JMSC Alumni Win Record Number of Awards at SOPA

Six JMSC alumni were among the winners at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for Editorial Excellence, which took place on Thursday, June 7. The awards cover traditional and new media in the […]

5 June 2012

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Alumnus Wins Postgraduate Research Award

Alison Hui (BJ 2011) has won an award for Best Oral Presentation at the 12th Annual HKU Research Postgraduate Conference. Her topic was using the media to encourage those suffering from depression to seek help. “I […]

25 May 2012

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Alumnus Wins Two Awards in San Francisco

Saul Sugarman, who graduated from the JMSC’s Master of Journalism Programme in 2009, has won two awards for his reporting for a legal affairs newspaper, the Daily Journal, in San Francisco. The awards were given on […]

31 January 2012

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Alumnus Marries Love of Words With Love of Architecture in New Book

A book about Chinese architectural design by Sylvia Chan, a graduate of the JMSC’s Master of Journalism programme – Writing In(to) Architecture: China’s Architectural Design and Construction Since 1949 – is due for publication in […]

10 January 2012

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Academic “Through Train” Pays Off For Recent JMSC Alumni

JMSC alumni who entered the master’s programme fresh from their undergraduate studies have chalked up some remarkable early career successes. The merits of getting work experience before returning to university or spending another year or two […]

7 December 2011

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JMSC Students Secure Prestigious Winter Internships

More than 40 of this year’s full-time Master of Journalism students have been placed in internships at prestigious media organisations over the winter break. The placements are in a wide range of organisations spread over […]

25 November 2011

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JMSC Alumnus Runs Social Media at Phnom Penh Post

Justin Heifetz (MJ 2011) has been appointed to work as a journalist and social media editor at the Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s main English language newspaper. “The role is unique in that I write stories […]

18 October 2011

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MJ Converts Internship At The Economist Intelligence Unit Into Job

Richard Schuster (MJ 2011), who spent four months with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) this summer, was recently offered a fixed-term position. As the sister company of The Economist magazine, a member of the Economist […]