Ming Pao Journalist Kevin Lau Statement on His Attack
In an exclusive two-minute video, former Ming Pao editor Kevin Lau called on the Hong Kong police to continue to investigate the violent attack on him and to uncover the mastermind behind the attack....
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JMSC Alums Take SOPA Awards
Three alumni from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre were among winners of the 2014 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for Editorial Excellence, announced June 11 in Hong Kong. The awards...
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Scholarship in Video / Broadcast Journalism Created in Memory of Veteran...
Asia Pacific Vision, in partnership with the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong, has established a fund for the education of broadcast journalists and video...
View ArticleJMSC Programme Extends News Literacy in Asia
How do you verify information on the web? Has a picture on a website been photoshopped? Is a tweet reliable? For the third straight year, the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The...
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JMSC teaching goes global with launch of HKU MOOC
Education in health risk communication has been made accessible to a global audience with the launch of the University of Hong Kong’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Epidemics, developed in...
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JMSC students provide live coverage of HK democracy protests
As thousands of pro-democracy activists block Hong Kong streets to demand the right to choose their own Chief Executive, students from the JMSC have formed on-the-ground news teams to cover this...
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Student-run page that vets protest rumours swamped with ‘likes’
A Facebook page established by JMSC bachelor of journalism students to verify rumours about the on-going Hong Kong democracy protests has struck an immediate chord with the public, surpassing the...
View ArticleNew grants fund JMSC social media and censorship research
JMSC Assistant Professor Fu King-Wa has been awarded two new grants to continue his work investigating the behaviour of social media users in China and Hong Kong and assessing the extent of Chinese...
View ArticleDocumentary by JMSC’s Ruby Yang raises over $900,000 for scholarships
The gala premiere of “My Voice, My Life”, a film directed by Oscar-winning documentary maker Ruby Yang, has raised over $900,000 for The University of Hong Kong’s First-in-the-Family Education Fund....
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JMSC welcomes two distinguished visiting educators
Two distinguished educators will be teaching classes and presenting talks, on journalism entrepreneurship and the mainland Chinese media, at the JMSC in November and December . Dan Gillmor Professor...
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Data Journalism Handbook is released in Chinese / 數據新聞手冊中文版發佈
A Chinese-language version of The Data Journalism Handbook, an open-access, crowd-sourced, online reference guide to the emerging field of data journalism, is now available online. The first edition...
View ArticleSpecial licenses give JMSC students full access to Adobe editing software
Second- and third-year JMSC students have been granted individual, one-year licenses to install Adobe’s Creative Cloud full editing suite on their own laptops or home computers. The initiative, funded...
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JMSC master’s students hit the big time with reporting on Hong Kong protests
JMSC master of journalism students covering Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests have seen some of the world’s major media organizations publish their stories, photos and videos. News outlets including...
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JMSC gets WHO grant to study cultural effect on risk communication
The JMSC has been awarded a one-year research grant by the World Health Organization to investigate whether cultural differences in Asia have any impact on the effectiveness of communication with the...
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News literacy workshops illustrate healthy skepticism about Internet “news”
Can you tell whether the news you read on Facebook or Twitter is fact or fiction? That’s the question JMSC Assistant Professor Masato Kajimoto has been asking journalists and educators across the...
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JMSC alumna Phillippa Stewart conquers 15,000km cross-continent charity cycle...
If Phillippa Stewart, a JMSC graduate and multi-media journalist, was looking for fodder for stories, her year-long charity bicycle ride from Malaysia to the UK produced enough tales to fill a book,...
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Master of journalism students learn persistence and story pitching in...
Persistence, independence, proactive pitching of stories and “doing your homework” are key attributes for budding journalists, according to JMSC masters students who have just completed their winter...
View ArticleJMSC alumnus helps form journalism ethics body in Mongolia
Learning about the importance of media ethics and accurate reporting while at the JMSC has inspired TV producer and JMSC graduate Lhagva Erdene to help establish a media ethics council in Mongolia. The...
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Regional health risk communication workshop teaches behavioural change
Health professionals from China and Afghanistan attended the workshop “We can get people informed. Doing the education thing is easy,” says Dr. Everold Hosein. “The real challenge is getting people to...
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Hong Kong student stars at US screening of “My Voice, My Life”
First, Lin Tsz-nok’s life and struggles with visual impairment were shown in a documentary by Ruby Yang, the Oscar-winning documentary maker and JMSC lecturer. Then he shared the stage with Yang at...
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