Obituary: Diane Stormont

Diane Stormont, a much loved Senior Teaching Consultant at the JMSC and well-known journalist, died in Hong Kong after a long fight with cancer on Wednesday, March 14, aged 52.

Director’s Message: Ying Chan           Slideshow:Over The Years

Shanghai Summer Programme 2012: Career Discovery in Communications for High School and College Students

The JMSC is offering a two-week summer programme in Shanghai for high school and college students on digital communications. It will run from July 2 – 13.

Data Journalism Scholarships Funded By Google Now Open

Google will fund two full-tuition scholarships for Master of Journalism candidates with solid computer technology backgrounds. The scholarships will provide support for the field of data journalism, one of the new areas of focus at the JMSC.

Welcome to the JMSC

The Journalism and Media Studies Centre brings professional journalism education to Hong Kong’s premier university, creating an environment for vibrant interaction among students from Hong Kong, mainland China, Asia and the rest of the world. From day one, students develop convergent skills enabling them operate comfortably in all aspects of the industry, ranging from print, audio, video, multi-media to interactive online journalism.

An MJ’s CNNGo Internship: Part Fun, Part Bootcamp

Lareina Choong, a Master of Journalism student from Singapore, spent 10 weeks interning at CNNGo in Hong Kong this winter, working on its travel and lifestyle news web site. An account of her experience:

Track Developments in the China Media Via the CMP China Media Map

Stay abreast of developments within the China media via the China Media Map produced by the JMSC’s China Media Project (CMP)

JMSC Students Secure Prestigious Winter Internships

More than 40 of this year’s full-time Master of Journalism students have been placed in internships at prestigious media organisations over the winter break.

The placements are in a wide range of organisations spread over a large geographical area.  They…

Overnight At The Museum – A Reporting Assignment Like No Other

The assignment would make a hardened war correspondent tremble: cover a pair of science camps spent locked up overnight in a museum with 300 teenagers on two consecutive Fridays.

JMSC-China Media Project Publications

The JMSC’s China Media Project regularly publishes books documenting and commenting on the evolution of the media in China written and edited by its staff and fellows. View them here.

Wheelchair Challenge: Watch JMSC Students Attempt to Negotiate the HKU Campus

Students taking Online Journalism were set a challenge: experience life as a wheelchair-bound user of the University of Hong Kong campus. They were divided into groups, issued with a wheelchair and given a route to negotiate.
Share their experiences.