26 July 2012

Diary of an Internship at Associated Press in Rome

Paola Barisani, an Italian who has just graduated from the JMSC with a Master of Journalism degree, is interning at the Associated Press (AP) in Rome, Italy  this summer. Barisani recounts the first six weeks […]
24 July 2012

Work Starts on JMSC’s New Digital Media Lab

Remodeling work has begun on the JMSC’s Digital Media Lab in Eliot Hall. The work is the first phase in a three-year-long project to turn the historic building into a multi-media and high-tech learning space […]
23 July 2012

Student Recounts Summer Internship at IHT

What’s it like to intern with a major international news organisation? Zakiyyah Wahab, a Bachelor of Journalism student at the JMSC, is finding out.  She’s spending her summer interning at the Hong Kong bureau of […]
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 […]
17 July 2012

JMSC Awards Scholarships to a United Nations of Students

The JMSC is awarding 19 scholarships to this year’s intake of Master of Journalism students, including individuals from Afghanistan, America, Ghana, Nepal, New Zealand and Zambia.  More than half of the scholarship recipients are from […]
15 June 2012

The Truth is Complicated – Foxconn fact checking

Conditions at the Shenzhen factory of the hi-tech manufacturer Foxconn are not exactly ideal, according to journalist Rob Schmitz. A digital voice repeats “OK” every time one of the hundreds of workers completes a single […]
13 June 2012

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

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 […]