Ko Swe Win, editor-in-chief of Myanmar Now and 2009 Master of Journalism graduate, was honoured with this year’s Schuman Award for Human Rights by the European Union in Myanmar along with activists Cheery Zahau and Daw Khin […]
The Hong Kong Documentary Initiative kicked off its annual Dialogue with Filmmakers series with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog on 21 March. Mr. Herzog answered questions from a full house at the Chong Yuet Ming Cultural Centre […]
JMSC director Keith Richburg and Kevin Sites, director of the Master of Journalism programme, caught up with our alumni in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively, while there to interview candidates for the 2018-2019 class. They also […]
Dr. King-wa Fu and the Weiboscope team were featured in a number of recent reports, including Columbia Journalism Review and Nieman Lab, about increased online censorship following the proposal by the Chinese Communist Party to abolish the […]
By Tang Ziyi The Journalism & Media Studies Centre (JMSC) held a talk titled “Why media ethics matter in the era of fake news” at the University of Hong Kong last Wednesday. Two senior members […]
The HK Transparency Report published the findings of its survey of cyberspace surveillance in five jurisdictions on 9 February. The research seeks to shed light on solutions for Hong Kong to improve the current surveillance law and […]
Nancy Tong and Ruby Yang were joined on stage on 6 February by renowned cinematographer Kirsten Johnson and editor Mary Stephen at the “Women Make Docs” symposium where they shared their experiences of making films in […]
By George Russell From stray dogs to censorship, JMSC’s Master of Journalism candidates encountered a range of real-world issues during their exciting winter internships, in which 55 students were placed in newsrooms around Hong Kong, […]