17 March 2010

Hong Kong: Our City, Our Society

The latest instalment of Hong Kong Stories (香港故事) has arrived. Students of Masato Kajimoto’s New Media Workshop (JMSC 0007) course have released this week their term projects under the theme of Hong Kong: Our City, […]
16 March 2010

Yang Hengjun on Bloggers and Social Change in China

It testifies to the power of the Internet in China that a jack of all trades like Yang Hengjun (杨恒均) — expert on international affairs, writer of spy fiction and business executive — can carve out a role for himself as a one-man media powerhouse. Yang has been online for five years, and seriously blogging for just three. But measured by unique IP visits to his various blog sites, he now averages 150,000 readers a day.
15 March 2010

March 19: Len Apcar – A Conversation with NextGen Journalists

Last chance to hear Len Apcar talk at HKU! Len Apcar, editor of the Asian edition of the International Herald Tribune, and a visiting professor at the JMSC, is leaving Hong Kong to take up a […]
15 March 2010

JMSC Pacquiao Story Taken by ABC

The JMSC’s ABC News on Campus team has had its third story broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company. MJ student Tem Hansen reported on the mania surrounding Manny Pacquiao in the Philippines. The boxer, nicknamed […]
13 March 2010

March 26: Lunchtime Lecture – Communicating Ideas to a Broader Audience

By Christian Caryl, Muse Magazine Critic-in-Residence, at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU
12 March 2010

Four Saturdays in April-May: Public Course – The Art of Commentary

Lecturer: Christian Caryl. Would you like to learn a few simple principles that will help you to get your message across in writing? Here’s your chance! Come to a public course by Christian Caryl, Muse Magazine Critic-in-Residence, […]
10 March 2010

March 12: The Politics of Private TV Channel Ownership in Bangladesh

Lecturer: Abdur Razzaque Khan PhD candidate at the JMSC, and assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism of the University of Chittagong (Bangladesh), Abdur Razzaque Khan, will talk this Friday about the Politics […]
10 March 2010

Web Writing Workshop

Barry Kalb, Honorary Lecturer at the JMSC, normally teaches news writing to BJs and MJs at the JMSC, but over the last year he’s held half a dozen writing workshops for university staff. He starts off […]