Diane Stormont will be teaching the online skills training and Rob McBride will be teaching the course on digital storytelling.

Here’s the summer’s upcoming programs:

Digital Storytelling (Video Editing) – 3-5 & 10-12 July 2009
This is a hands-on 5-day course in digital video shooting and editing. Participants will learn to engage in the digital age of multi-skilled storytelling. Weekday or weekend modes of study available.

Online Skills Training for Working Journalists – 3-5 August & 10-12 August 2009
This is a practical course aimed at helping working journalists make the transition into the digital age. They will be introduced to the technologies and the skills that are revolutionizing the news media. Participants will learn the process of digital news gathering (audio, stills, video) and preparation for web distribution. Modular classes and morning sessions will accommodate those who are working.

Media Presentation Skills – 19 August 2009
This highly interactive one-day course is designed for anyone whose role requires them to communicate through broadcast and video media.

For details and enrollment form, please go to http://jmsc.hku.hk/map/shortcourses or contact Kylie Chan at +852 2219 4416 / kyliec at hku.hk. To learn more about the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, please visit our website at http://jmsc.hku.hk

(h/t to Doreen Weisenhaus)

Will gets passionate about new media in China, the films of Jia Zhang Ke, Coopers Pale Ale and the Magnetic Fields.

Soon after completing a BA majoring in political science and Chinese from the University of Melbourne, Will worked in PR for the Asialink Centre. He is now completing a master of journalism at the JMSC, University of Hong Kong.

Ying cites the stabbing of an American at the Drum Tower in Beijing during the Olympics. Instead of covering up the incident, state-run media led coverage, forcing market-driven media to follow with pick-ups.

This evolution is just one of the developments in China’s media highlighted in a collection of fifteen essays from some of China’s top journalists recently published by Hong Kong University. (Chinese-language only for now, but more of the trends in the below video.)

The essayists, all guest speakers at the HKU China Media Project, write on topics ranging from from the launch of Southern Weekend to the rise of the Chinese weblog.

From David Bandurski:

Chapters in the book include: “Launching Southern Weekend,” by Zuo Fang; “Ten Years at Caijing,” an account of one of China’s leading business and current affairs magazines by its founder and editor in chief, Hu Shuli; “Libel Law in China,” and account by lawyer Pu Zhiqiang of the history of libel in China and his observations based on defendants he has represented; “Rebuilding and Renewal in China,” an essay by political reform activist and scholar Chen Ziming; “Gradual Reform in China’s Media,” observations on changes in China’s media by veteran journalist Yang Jisheng.

Chan’s honours include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists. She taught
at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association. Chan has a bachelor’s degree (social sciences) from HKU and a Masters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Source: Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong

6th Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference
Date/Time: June 13-14, 2008, 8:30-6:30 daily
Venue: Council Chamber, 8/F, Meng Wah Building, University of Hong Kong
Host: Journalism and Media Studies Centre
Languages: English and Putonghua (with simultaneous translation)
Website: www.circ.asia

Held at a different university each year, the annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) brings together academic scholars, policy analysts, industry leaders, journalists and legal practitioners from around the world. This year’s conference comes to Hong Kong for the first time, hosted by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

This year’s conference theme, “China and the Internet: Myths and Realities,” seeks to separate fact from fiction about the Internet in China. As the attention of the world will be focused upon the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games, this timely event will explore the political, social, economic, cultural and institutional aspects of Internet development in China.

Panels of scholars will present the latest empirical research as well as qualitative and critical studies of the meaning of information technologies in the Chinese world. The programme also includes roundtable discussions and presentations by some of the people who are shaping the future of China’s internet: Chinese bloggers, internet entrepreneurs, journalists and industry experts.

With simultaneous translation in English and Putonghua, the event will be of great interest to anybody who studies Internet developments in China.

For further details about scheduled sessions and panels see:
www.circ.asia
Registration: http://jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/circ/register-2/
(Registration fee is waived for full-time HKU students and staff)