28 September 2017

JMSC author talks: Borrowed Spaces/Contested Spaces

In conversation with Antony Dapiran and Christopher DeWolf   5:00-6:30pm, 12 October 2017 (Thursday) The Studio, G/F, Eliot Hall, The University of Hong Kong [Directions] Seats are limited. Please register here. Note: The event will be […]
28 October 2016

Darkened Screen: Constraints on Foreign Journalists in China

DATE: Thursday 3 November 2016 TIME: 4:30-6:00 p.m. VENUE: MWT4 (Meng Wah Complex, 1/F) ABSTRACT: On September 22, PEN America, the largest of more than 100 centres of PEN International, released Darkened Screen, a report detailing […]
18 January 2016

Video journalism innovation at Asia’s first Editors Lab hackday event

The JMSC has hosted the first ever Editors Lab hackday event in Asia, with five teams from mainland China amongst those who joined the competition to develop an innovative video journalism tool. Journalists and media […]
14 December 2015

Amendment of the Copyright Bill in Hong Kong (Talk on 18 Dec.)

The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2014 recently ignited severe controversy before a legislative debate. Netizens are worried that the Bill will further undermine internet freedom, yet the Government insists that it still provides sufficient protection to […]
1 December 2015

Writing business news – insights from the front line

Reporters can focus on a human story or explain a process in detail to produce compelling financial stories, said Yumiko Ono, Asia Digital Editor for The Wall Street Journal.
23 November 2015

‘Be entrepreneur journalists’: CNN anchor Kristie Lu Stout talks to JMSC students

‘You can be entrepreneur journalists—you don’t have to be limited to one platform or even company,’ CNN International news anchor, Kristie Lu Stout, told students during a recent visit to the HKU campus. Kristie met […]
6 November 2015

Documentary screening: Mystery monkeys of Shangri-la (Sunday 15 November)

It’s a story of a family of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys living in the highest forests in the world produced by award-winning filmmaker Xi Zhinong. A group of filmmakers from Wild China Film Studio, led by […]
6 October 2015

Call for Applications for News Literacy Fellows in Asia 2015

Call for applications Become a News Literacy Fellow this winter between Dec. 14 and 16 in Yangon, Myanmar. Help pioneer a new course on how to evaluate information coming from the news media. Work with […]