Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong
Prof. Yuen-Ying Chan, Director, Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC), University of Hong Kong (HKU) founded the JMSC in July 1999, the first journalism program at HKU. She also serves as the Dean of the Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication at Shantou University in Guangdong, China. Her honours include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and a George Polk Award for excellence in local reporting for her work with the New York Daily News. In 1997, she was the recipient of an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists following a lengthy and ultimately successful battle against a criminal libel prosecution in Taiwan.
yychan@hku.hk
Assistant Prof. Doreen Weisenhaus , Director of the JMSC’s Media Law Project HKU, is a specialist in media law and ethics. Prior to joining HKU, she was city editor of The New York Times and was the first legal editor of The New York Times Magazine. She was also the editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal, a leading publication for lawyers in the US, where she led award-winning coverage of such issues as the death penalty and environmental racism. Doreen was also a prosecutor in New York City and holds a Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Science-Journalism from Northwestern University. She is author of the book, Hong Kong Media Law: A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals (2007).
doreen@hku.hk
Roby Alampay heads the secretariat of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance. A product of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he was an award-winning journalist in Manila for 13 years prior to going to Bangkok to become the first executive director of SEAPA, the only regional organization with the specific mandate of promoting and protecting press freedom in Southeast Asia. A former lecturer at the University of the Philippines, he has won various awards for investigative journalism in Manila, and his essays on press freedom and free expression have been published in the region’s leading papers, including The Asian Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, The Nation (Bangkok), The Jakarta Post, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, and The Standard of Hong Kong.
SEAPA was founded in 1998 by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (Philippines), the Alliance of Independent Journalists (Indonesia), the Institute for the Study of the Free Flow of Information (Indonesia), and the Thai Journalists Association
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Wilda Fong, Research Associate, Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC), University of Hong Kong. Prior to working at the JMSC, she was the editor of China Law & Practice (a Euromoney Publication) and a legal editor of Halsbury’s Laws of Australia. She has also worked for the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office of New South Wales in Australia. Wilda is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and obtained her law degree from the Queensland University of Technology.
