22 February 2010

ABC Campus News — Focus on the Philippines

A team from ABC Campus News, the JMSC group tasked with providing content for the American Broadcasting Company, has just returned from its first international shoot in the Philippines. The JMSC’s video journalism lecturer and […]
18 February 2010

Han Dongfang: Laying Down The Tarmac

During the Tiananmen Square protests, a tall, charismatic railway worker emerged as a key leader of the Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation (WAF), the first independent trade union in the People’s Republic of China. Han Dongfang […]
10 February 2010

Media Academy for Pros

Fifteen working media professionals have just completed the JMSC’s Online and Video Skills Course which was tailored for members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong. The JMSC offers courses to outside media professionals and other interested parties as […]
10 February 2010

Team JMSC and George Soros – Behind the Scenes

“The JMSC gets some pretty awesome speakers coming in quite regularly, but when we secured George Soros to come to speak at an audience at HKU, we didn’t know what to expect.” Kylie Chan, JMSC […]
9 February 2010

From Journalism to Medicine

JMSC Master of Journalism alumni, Wong Man-Yee, has now graduated again with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at HKU. Her third degree in fact, as she received a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies in 1998. Her story ....
4 February 2010

To Tweet Or Not To Tweet: that is the question

When the German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas started tweeting recently, the subject he chose was the internet. Or was it? The 81 year old academic and intellectual is often cited as one of the most influential […]
2 February 2010

JMSC’s Thomas Abraham defends the WHO

Thomas Abraham, Director of the Public Health Communication Programme and Assistant Professor at the JMSC, has struck back at sceptics attacking the World Health Organisation for the way it’s handled the H1N1 pandemic. Accusations have included a […]
30 January 2010

Fighting for Press Freedom in Southeast Asia

The recent conviction of Vietnamese human rights attorney, Le Cong Dinh, in Ho Chi Minh City is a blow to press freedom in South East Asia. Dinh was found guilty with three others of trying […]