10 February 2014

JMSC Graduates Earn Advanced Degrees With High Rankings

Three graduate students from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre recently earned advanced degrees in journalism – a PhD and two Master of Philosophy degrees. PhD graduate Abdur Razzaque Khan, from Bangladesh, completed his thesis […]
11 February 2013

Journalism Programme Lauded as JMSC Celebrates 14 Years

The University of Hong Kong is proud of its journalism programme and is committed to supporting it and helping it grow, says Deputy Vice Chancellor Roland Chin. He made the pledge recently at a gathering of HKU’s journalism alumni, hosted by HKU Vice Chancellor Lap-Chee Tsui and Professor Ying Chan, founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC).
4 February 2013

Career Tips from Alumni: Documentary Film Production with Vincent Du

JMSC alumnus Vincent Du’s latest documentary has been picked up by Al Jazeera. “Almost Famous” features China’s largest school for rock music and will play on the network’s English-language programme, “Witness”. We caught up with […]
25 January 2013

Alumnus Returns to JMSC to Teach Computational Journalism Course

Jonathan Stray (MJ, 2010), who leads the Overview Project for the Associated Press (AP), is at the JMSC for four weeks teaching the school’s first Computational Journalism course. He’s also making clear what the difference is between “computational” and […]
15 October 2012

JMSC Alumni Working as Bilingual Reporters in Hong Kong

Three JMSC alumni are working as multilingual reporters at Hong Kong’s leading commercial television station, TVB. TVB broadcasts in Cantonese, Mandarin and English on its channels TVB Jade and TVB Pearl. It has developed the […]
23 July 2012

Alumnus Lands Two Media Jobs in Colombia

Sergio Held, who received his Master of Journalism degree this year, has secured two jobs in Bogotá, the capitol city of his native Colombia. Held has been made Deutsche Welle‘s correspondent for its new Spanish-language TV news […]