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Reporting in the UK: A study trip for Hong Kong Financial Journalists
25 MA students from Hong Kong Baptist University, specialising in Financial Journalism, attended the CMC study trip “Financial and Economic Reporting in the UK” from 3 January until 10 January 2010. The delegation was lead by Prof Huang Yu, who took his PhD at the University of Westminster under Professor Colin Sparks and is Head [...]
CMC Seminar: Representations of China in the UK Press
China Media Centre 2009 Autumn-Winter Seminar Representations of China in the UK Press Speaker: Prof. Colin Sparks Date: Wednesday 18th November, 2009 Time: 2.00-4.00 pm Venue: MHW_A4-4 Harrow Campus, University of Westminster Abstract: The Chinese government, together with many ordinary Chinese people, particularly students, are frequently angered by the way in which China is portrayed [...]
China Media Centre -inside China’s growing media industry
What does China’s media tell us about the fastest growing economy in the world? Investigative journalism is developing in print and broadcast, but how questioning is it allowed to be? How do news agencies operate? Now that commercial television has arrived, what kind of advertisements are acceptable? And how is the government dealing with the [...]
