Student articles
A mixture of hard news, narrative features and profiles by Bachelor and Master of Journalism students, including ones published on the JMSC Dispatches and Reporting Health & Medicine websites:
7 March 2024
Two of our Bachelor of Journalism students, Wisley Lau Ho Yue and Mona Yan Zi Han, attended the press conference after Hong Kong Finance Secretary Paul Chan announced the 2024-2025 budget on Wednesday, February 28.
6 March 2024
The Hong Kong government faces over HK$100 billion in financial deficit for the second consecutive year. The financial budget released on February 28th indicates an expectation to return to surplus within four years.
4 June 2018
By Yiduan Wu Identity issues in Hong Kong were the subject of this year’s documentaries produced by journalism postgraduates at the University of Hong Kong. Four documentaries, each lasting around 15 minutes, showed the stories […]
7 May 2018
By Tongtong Li Photographs of street views and political activists dominated the photographs displayed in the “Young Lenses” student photography exhibition held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club from 2-11 May. The exhibition displayed photographs […]
23 November 2017
By Carmel Yang Soft-spoken and bespectacled, Shui-Bo Wang looks every bit like an artist. In Hong Kong for a seminar at the University of Hong Kong, curated by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang as part of […]
27 October 2017
By Suhas Bhat A senior inspector from the Hong Kong Police spoke to students at the University of Hong Kong on Thursday, 26 October 2017, and stressed the importance of accuracy in the media. At […]
6 October 2017
By Martin Choi The Journalism and Media Studies Centre held its first series of lunchtime talks this year titled “Journalism in the Age of ‘Fake News’” over the course of three weeks, at a time […]
3 August 2017
By Tamsyn Burgmann John Burns watched nervously out his window on 30 June 1997 as British military ships and helicopters made a final inspection tour of the East Lamma Channel, contemplating the era about […]
6 April 2017
By Xinyue Ji | A quick ( and not necessarily scientific) survey by this website found that HKU students above the age of 22 tend to eat breakfast more than four times a week compared […]
5 April 2017
By Queenie Wong “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Is that true? A recent study published by Frontiers showed that skipping breakfast could be beneficial. Skipping breakfast could be a way to force […]
5 April 2017
By Ray Zisong Yu | April 2, 2017 Eating lentils and other legumes regularly may help prevent type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study by scientists at Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. The study […]
20 March 2017
By Natasha Fernandes Pharmacies in Hong Kong are selling antibiotics over the counter without asking for a prescription from customers, an investigation by this health news site has found, despite the government’s latest effort to combat the drug […]
2 March 2017
By Raymond Yu | Feb. 16, 2017 — Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is often used as either a complement or an alternative to western medicine for a variety of illness. A recent study indicates that […]
2 March 2017
By Queenie Wong The H7N9 bird flu outbreak has killed 79 people in China this January, which was 16 times more of same period in last year. 5 people were died from H7N9 bird flu […]
2 March 2017
By Xinyue Ji | Feb. 19, 2017 — It’s a story all too familiar – you hear people talking about quitting smoking for the sixth or seventh time, only to see them relapsing within a short […]