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 […]
11 September 2012

HKBN Runs Student Packages

The Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN), one of Hong Kong’s three major cable providers, is running packages produced by JMSC students. The students made two-to-three-minute TV packages in Cantonese for the network about summer sports […]
1 September 2012

Scholarships Funded by Google Awarded

Google has funded three Data Journalism Scholarships for this year’s intake of Master of Journalism students at the JMSC. The scholars will devote the first semester to core courses in the MJ programme, and then concentrate on special […]
22 August 2012

Two More Experienced Journalists Join JMSC Teaching Staff

Two  experienced journalists have joined the JMSC’s teaching staff. Kevin Sites has been appointed Associate Professor of Practice. He will start teaching in the Autumn semester; his initial courses are Introduction to TV and Television […]
27 July 2012

From Afghanistan to Zambia – This Year’s MJ’s

This year’s incoming JMSC Master of Journalism class covers the most extensive geographical spread yet. Sixty-six students have enrolled from a score of countries and territories on every continent except South America and Antarctica: Afghanistan, […]