Journalism and Media Studies Centre


The Journalism and Media Studies Centre was founded in September 1999 at the University of Hong Kong. The centre is affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences in HKU. Educational programmes in JMSC include graduate and undergraduate courses, seminars, workshops and courses for news professionals at all levels of expertise.

Academic programs

Hong Kong Documentary Initiative was established by The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre in 2014 after the success of "My Voice, My Life" with major support from Lee Hysan Foundation. The advisors and co-convenors of the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative include Ruby Yang, Ying Chan and Nancy Tong. The Initiative aims to support and nurture local emerging filmmakers in making their mark in the documentary community with See Grants, Master Classes, Dialogue with Filmmakers. More than 40 filmmakers from US, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Chile, Japan, Philippines, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; over 50 events, 3,000 participants. Notable projects and visiting filmmakers from around the world:
China Media Project was established by The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre in 2003.

Staff

Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre. Before 1998, Professor Ying Chan worked for 23 years as a reporter, editor and documentary filmmaker in New York City.
Professor Chan has also taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.
Director, China Media Project, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong.
Qian Gang is also the author of the book Great Earthquake of Tangshan.
  • David Bandurski
Bandurski is a China analyst and freelance investigative journalist at University of Hong Kong and was educated at the Northwestern University. David is responsible for managing the China Media Project website. David Bandurski is a regular contributor in Far Eastern Economic Review, The [Wall Street Journal], Index on Censorship, the South China Morning Post and other publications.
Mainland China's veteran journalists spend up to three months at the JMSC as Visiting Fellows.
Hu Shuli Shi Zhe Yang Jisheng He Xuefeng Yang Daming Jin Liping
He Yanguang Lu Ye Sun Xupei Shi Zhengmao Hu Yong Lu Xinyu
Tang Jianguang Li Yaling Liu Chang Wu Chongqing Pu Zhiqiang Zhang Jianjing

it is now based in the United States, with a "research hub" in Taiwan, according to the project's website.