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21 January 2011

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Jan 26: Lecture – Nancy Tong on The Maryknoll Sisters

JMSC Visiting Associate Professor, Nancy Tong, and her fellow academic, Vivien Ng, will talk about their upcoming documentary film Trailblazers in Habits on Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The documentary In 1922, six Maryknoll Sisters in […]

18 January 2011

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MJ Alumnus – Three Months Reporting from Kabul

Bethany Matta, a Master of Journalism student at the JMSC who graduated in 2010, has spent the past three months freelancing in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Here is her update of how she’s been […]

17 January 2011

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Jan 20: Lecture – Reflections of a Mainland Publisher

Cheng Yizhong, Former Chief Editor of Southern Metropolis Daily and The Beijing News, will give a talk to JMSC students on Thursday 20 January. The lecture is called Reflections of a Mainland Publisher and will be delivered […]

13 January 2011

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Reporting the Haiti Earthquake Aftermath: Radio and Mobile Phones Were Crucial

Anne Nelson, co-author of Media, Information Systems and Communities: Lessons from Haiti, gave a lecture to JMSC students and staff on Thursday 13 January about the innovative use of both new and traditional media after last […]

12 January 2011

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Professor Chan Talks about Creative Commons

In the age of the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Apple iPad, the landscape of information acquisition, access and distribution is quickly changing, but one thing has not changed in the […]

12 January 2011

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Jan 13: Lecture – How New Technologies Helped in Novel Ways with Haiti Earthquake Relief

Anne Nelson, author of Media, Information Systems and Communities: Lessons from Haiti, will discuss findings from a Knight Foundation report on how digital media and information technology can significantly improve relief efforts and coordinate on-the-ground […]

7 January 2011

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China Media Project Fellow Comments on Mainland University Education System

Zhang Ming, a fellow of the JMSC’s China Media Project (CMP) and a political science professor at Renmin University, has written an article about how bureaucracy is holding back university education in China. The article […]

5 January 2011

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Jan 12: Knowledge Exchange Lunch Meeting

Professor Ying Chan, the Director of the JMSC, will speak at a Knowledge Exchange about the Creative Commons License on Wednesday January 12, 2011. Creative Commons (CC) is an international system of intellectual property rights […]