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Pulitzer Prize
Winners Workshop

Eight Pulitzer Winners stayed in HKBU and participated in a week-long series of open lectures, public forum, and classroom discussions on the journalism profession.

Exchange Programmes

Journalism student life at HKBU

We accept students of all different nationalities and backgrounds and encourage them to explore the world.

Data and Media Hack #2019

Department of Journalism and the Department of Computer Science co-organized the first large-scale data and media collegiate hackathon in Hong Kong. Our DMC students won the champion and Wisers AI Innovation Award.

Recent Events

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Animating the News
On 06
Nov
2019
Journalism Movie Club 2019/20: “A Private War”
On 29
Oct
2019
Coding for media, humanities, and social science: Python Workshop 1.0
On 25
Oct
2019
Talk and Workshop Series: AI and Big Data Applications in News Production
On 23
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25
Oct
2019
IMS 123: 談不完的香港
On 08
Oct
2019
International Media Salon: Covering Asia for the Wall Street Journal
On 25
Sep
2019
Data Analytics in Journalism, Social Science and Business Studies
On 03
Jun
2019
Faculty Research Colloquium
On 09
May
2019
Convergence of Finance and Technology
On 16
Apr
2019
International Media Salon: My days with Chinese Intellectuals
On 11
Apr
2019

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Practicums

Journalism students work on one of four student-media publications, which are student run and have thousands of readers. With both print and online publications, students get to experiment with new technology to publish in the medium that serves the story best.

San Po Yan
(新報人)

The Chinese print and digital news publication produced by Chinese Journalism students.

The Young Financial Post

The Chinese and English print and digital news publication produced by Financial Journalism students.

Broadcast News Network

The Chinese broadcast news channel produced by Chinese Journalism students focusing on broadcast news.

The Young Reporter

The English print and digital news publication produced by International Journalism students.

Faculty Research & Projects

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Recent projects from our journalism faculty
Political Disagreement on Social Media

Political Disagreement on Social Media

This research attempts to reveal the dark side of social media, i.e., how political disagreement on social media leads to expression avoidance, thereby triggers political polarization and intolerance in the context of HK.

Dr. Xinzhi Zhang
Next Generation & Social Participation in HK

Net Generation and Social Participation in Hong Kong

This study examines the Net Generation’s social participation from the perspective of their generational characteristics in the Hong Kong’s post-handover period.

Prof. Alice Lee
Hong Kong News-Expo

Hong Kong News-Expo

Using interactive, multimedia and virtual reality technologies, the news-expo will tell the story of Hong Kong’s evolution from a fishing village to an international metropolis and financial centre through news reports by the city’s print and electronic media.

CK Lau
THE IRRATIONAL BASIS OF MEDIA CREDIBILITY PERCEPTIONS

The Irrational Basis of Media Credibility Perceptions

Despite expectations that higher credibility leads to a better informed public, evidence shows that audience members do not always base their judgment of media performance on rational reasoning.

Prof. Steve Guo
Teaching Investigative Journalism

Teaching Investigative Journalism

New courses on investigative journalism and investigative documentary will be developed along with an investigative journalism workshop for students in collaboration with local media.

Jenny Lam

Social Media and Adolescents

The objective of this study is to explore the impact of the smartphone and social media on the emotional health of school students in Hong Kong. The survey is jointly conducted by Prof. Alice Lee, clinical psychologist Ms. Sumee Chan and the Hong Kong Pediatric Foundation.

Prof. Alice Lee
Microblogging the Food Safety

Microblogging the Food Safety

This study aims to offer a description of online Weibo and Twitter users and their activities related to food safety discussion and to provide insights into the design of social media tools and health campaigns.

Dr. Celine Song
Digital Poverty

Digital Poverty and Social Media Uses

Poverty is a complex problem, and it is closely linked to social disadvantage and inequality. This study investigates digital poverty in the social media era, its types and levels, and the underlying socio-economic factors.

Dr. Nick Zhang

Institute For Journalism & Society

The Institute for Journalism and Society aims to provide a dynamic and synergetic platform to integrate knowledge production, professional training, industry outreach and social participation in the field of journalism.