15 October 2025

Alyssa Chen

MJ 2022, Alyssa Chen, China Reports, SCMP
The one-year MJ programme was a transformative one that left me better equipped to navigate the ever-evolving challenges of the media landscape. I already had some foundational skills before coming into the programme, but it allowed me to take my reporting abilities to the next level.
13 October 2025

Lexi Tian

MJ 2025, Lexi Tian, Reporter, Now TV
"My journey as a true journalist began the day I stepped into the JMSC." The intensive, one-year MJ program fundamentally reshaped my professional perspective, bridging my personal experiences with a broader global outlook. Through hands-on projects and various internships, I gained the practical skillset to thrive in a dynamic newsroom.
13 October 2025

Carlos Escueta

MJ 2024, Carlos Escueta, Sports Presenter and Technical Producer, RTHK
My time at HKU Journalism helped shaped my career path in more ways than one. I was able to enrich myself in new skills — from hard news writing, TV production, and audio editing — all of which are valuable skills I take with me in the passion I’ve found in the field of sports journalism and reporting.
9 July 2024

Jing Yang

MJ 2012, Jing Yang, Asia Bureau Chief, The Information
Award-winning journalist Jing Yang left journalism twice, and twice she came back. At the Wall Street Journal, she took a leading role in a series of investigative reports on China’s regulatory clampdown on tech companies, which won two SOPA awards and other recognitions from American press organisations. She is now the Asia bureau chief of The Information, a technology and business online news media.
9 July 2024

Natalie Wang

MJ 2012, Natalie Wang, Founder and Editor, Vino Joy News
Natalie Wang founded Vino Joy News, an English-language online media company dedicated to the wine business in China, in 2019, after covering the industry for half a decade. She was recognised as one of the 50 most influential women in the wine and spirits industry in 2021 by the Women in Wine and Spirits Awards. The Vino Joy News editor was the only Chinese journalist nominated for the 2023 Wine Communicator of the Year at the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
9 July 2024

Pip Stewart

MJ 2010, Pip Stewart, Motivational Speaker
Pip Stewart quit her corporate job in London in 2009 to study at the JMSC. She turned her three-month adventure through Guyana’s rainforest into a book, “Life Lessons From the Amazon.” While trekking through the jungle, she contracted leishmaniasis, which motivated her to raise awareness of the neglected disease and its impact on local communities. Pip is now a motivational speaker and writes children's books that encourage family adventures and a love for nature.
9 July 2024

Aleksander Solum

MJ 2014, Aleksander Solum, Executive Producer for Video, South China Morning Post
Aleksander Solum honed his video storytelling skills first at Monocle magazine in London and later at ABC Nyheter and NTB Scanpix in Oslo. While studying, he freelanced for various international media such as BBC and Al Jazeera. After graduation, he worked at various news outlets in Hong Kong before returning to the South China Morning Post as executive producer for video in late 2022.
9 July 2024

Samson So

MJ 2008, Samson So, Founder and Director, Eco Institute
Samson So is the founder and director of Eco Institute, a company providing environmental education through workshops and ecotourism. A self-taught nature photographer, he organises trips to remote places in Asia, Africa and South America to photograph animals in natural habitats. He also regularly serves as a photo competition judge with National Geographic, produces documentaries and writes books on ecology and green tourism.