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There are many attributes that come to mind when you meet Kevin Sites, but the best one is, he's a journalist by trade, storyteller by heart! Meet Kevin Sites - Author! He's an award-winning journalist, a pioneer in the field of backpack journalism reporting, and has covered over 30 different conflicts and natural disasters in the course of his career. Sites worked as a network news producer and correspondent for ABC, NBC and CNN but left broadcast television in 2005 to become the first Internet correspondent for Yahoo! News. In his ground breaking Hot Zone project, he covered nearly every war in the world in one year earning a dozen awards, including the Wired Rave Award in 2005 and the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism in 2006. He's the author of three non-fiction books on war, all published by Harper Perennial. These include: In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars. Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War. His debut novel, The Ocean Above Me will be published by Harper in summer 2023. Sites was chosen as a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University in 2010 and in 2012, was selected as a Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism inducted Sites into their Hall of Achievement in 2008. He lived and worked in Hong Kong as an Associate Professor of Practice at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong from 2012 until 2022. He's been a contributor to many print and online publications including, Vice News, Salon, Aeon, Men's Health, Wired, Popular Science, Parade, Alert Diver and The Small Wars Journal. We are so thrilled that he was able to join us on the Be a Dreamcatcher Podcast. Want to WATCH IT LIVE? Then head on over to Jessie Lynn's Facebook page today!

Fact or fiction: Overcoming health misinformation - episode sponsored by GoogleIn this episode, Jason Wincuinas speaks to Masato Kajimoto, Associate Professor, at Hong Kong University in The Journalism and Media Studies Centre, and award-winning journalist Syed Nazakat, founder and CEO of DataLEADS, a digital media and information initiative, and founder of ‘Health Analytics Asia', about the spread of misinformation in Asia and ways to combat it.Related content: Fact or fiction: Overcoming health misinformation articleExplainer video See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Keith Richburg, a native of Detroit, has been a print journalist for nearly his entire life. During his 30 years at the Washington Post he reported from countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He is currently the director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. We chatted with Mr. Richburg about his career, his life in Hong Kong, China, the United States, and more.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keith Richburg is former foreign correspondent and now director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong.

Twenty-four years since Britain handed Hong Kong back to China, the city has undergone a transformation. In recent years, Beijing has intensified the silencing of political dissent and the squeezing of media freedom - through new laws drawn up in the name of security, the jailing of critics, and the reigning in of adversarial journalism.Contributors:Chris Yeung - Chairperson, Hong Kong Journalists AssociationBao Choy - Freelance journalist, RTHKLinda Wong - Journalist, Citizen NewsKeith Richburg - Journalism and Media Studies Centre, Hong Kong University; president, Foreign Correspondents ClubHolden Chow - Vice chairman, Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong KongHong Kong: The assault on free speechThree Hong Kongers talk about the shrinking space for freedom in their city, and the way it has affected their lives and work.Contributors:Lee Cheuk-yan - Founder, June 4th MuseumWong Kei Kwan (Zunzi) - Political cartoonistNathan Law - Democracy activist- Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

This month Taylor Doggett talks with Mrs. Brenda C. Murphy, the president of the NAACP South Carolina State Conference, the first female elected as president in its 80 years of existence. Brenda discusses how legislative redistricting has historically impacted Black communities in the NAACP’s focus areas of: healthcare access, education, criminal justice, voting rights and political engagement, and economic sustainability. Stay apprised of what is on the horizon for fair voting in South Carolina so you can do your part to advocate for justice and equality for all people. Visit scwomenlead.net for the latest information about redistricting, stay tuned to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @SCWomenLead, and subscribe to our mailing list to receive redistricting news and fair voting alerts in your inbox. Brenda was born the oldest of eight children in Ridgeway, SC and currently resides in Columbia, SC. She has served in a number of leadership roles in her more than 40 years as an NAACP member as well as in the Order of the Eastern Star. She has been recognized with numerous Awards and Honors in the course of her more than 40-year Nursing career which included 17 years as a member of the United States Army Reserves Nurse Corp. She is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Nursing Department at South University, Columbia, SC where she mentors and teaches student nurses to be culturally competent and caring. Brenda is a member of Greenview First Baptist Church in Columbia, SC. She is married to Leo Murphy, Jr and they have three children, 10 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Taylor is a native of Columbia, South Carolina, and a graduate of Hammond School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Taylor received her undergraduate degree from the Hussman School of Media and Journalism with a concentration in Public Relations. During her time at UNC, Taylor studied abroad at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong. She currently works as a Press Assistant for the Fourth Congressional District in North Carolina. In her free time, Taylor enjoys reading, hiking, yoga, and dismantling structural inequality.

Like the pandemic itself, the problems faced by the inoculation drives over the past few months has revealed to us the confines of public health and the need to confront existing political, social and economic structures of our societies. In this second edition of Southasian Conversation, a series of online crossborder conversation, we hope to sift through the information (and jargon) to bring you interdisciplinary perspectives on COVID-19 vaccinations in Southasia. In this wide-ranging public conversation, recorded on 29 April, the panel explored the debates on vaccine production and distribution, the crisis of global and regional collaboration, and what the challenges of COVID-19 vaccination tells us about our fraught social contract. • Moderator: Thomas Abraham (Director of the Public Health Communications Programme at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong. Based in Bengaluru.) Panellists: • Zyma Islam (Data journalist and reporter for The Daily Star. Based in Dhaka.) • Ravindra Rannan-Eliya (Physician, economist and researcher. Executive Director and Fellow of the Institute of Health (IHP). Based in Colombo.) • Dwaipayan Banerjee (Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.) • Orzala Nemat (Afghan activist, scholar, political ethnographer and Director of Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). Based in London/Kabul.) https://www.himalmag.com/getting-the-jab-done-southasian-conversation-2-2021/ The full discussion is now available on Youtube: https://bit.ly/3xS5F0j and Spotify: spoti.fi/3b6oTVZ Apple podcasts: apple.co/3tmuZrO

Pip Stewart on Creating a Lifestyle Career, and Making Social Media Work for You. Ever wondered how to become a so-called “influencer”? The secret is storytelling. In this episode, Ash interviews his friend and co-host, Pip Stewart. Pip has cycled halfway around the world, embarked on a world-first kayak journey through the Amazon and survived a flesh-eating parasite. She talks about how she accidentally fell into a career in travel journalism, how one massive adventure changed her life, and why she sees social media as the route to editorial independence. In this episode, discover: Why you need to embrace being shit. If it's important to get a journalism degree.  Why hustle is key. Why social media is so powerful (and how to avoid its dark side). How Pip got a job as Red Bull's Adventure Editor. How to get noticed in a crowded media world. How to create a lifestyle career that works for you. Why you should take online relationships offline. How to deal with your ego. How to become an influencer. Links mentioned in this episode: Pip Website https://www.phillippastewart.com  Pip Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pipstewart/  Pip Twitter https://twitter.com/Stewart_Pip  Jo Cantello, Wolfsong media  Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong https://jmsc.hku.hk  Elizabeth Gilbert on following your curiosity. Reza Pakravan https://www.rezapakravan.com  Explorers Connect https://www.explorersconnect.com  Ness Knight http://www.nessknight.com  Laura Bingham https://www.laurabingham.org  RedBull.com https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/  Preview app https://thepreviewapp.com Inshot http://www.inshot.com  CutStory. JOIN US ON SOCIAL: We'd love to hear what you think of this week's The First Mile and if you've got any suggestions of topics or people you'd like to hear interviewed. Drop us a line on Instagram @AshBhardwaj and @PipStewart or Twitter @AshBhardwaj and @PipStewart. *Please consider leaving a review if you enjoyed this episode. Thank you! 

Life online during coronavirus social distancing…has lost its luster. So why not learn something new during this COVID19 pandemic...We talk to Ruby Yang who teaches documentary filmmaking at HKU. We laugh and learn about how famous directors approach a documentary, where you can take a course online to make your first ever documentary…and how maybe...this might help with your online teaching and conference calls!Guests:Ruby Yang, Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Further Listening and Reading:Fight COVID19 with HKU websiteFree online art and culture online resourcesHong Kong Documentary Film InitiativeRuby Yang Documentaries Production credits:Producer and Host: Marcy Trent LongAssistant producer: Crystal WuContributing Editor: Bonnie AuIntro/outro music: Alex MauboussinMusic from free music archive Dee Yan Key

They are China's key trading partners, but some African leaders have been angered over Beijing's reported discrimination against their citizens. They want answers from the Chinese government over reports Africans are being targetted because of fears they could spread coronavirus. A recent rise in covid-19 infections in China has been linked to people from abroad. The Chinese government is worried there could be a second wave and has stepped up its scrutiny of foreigners. African students and expatriates have reportedly been evicted from their homes, tested for coronavirus several times and are being shunned in public. The incidents have sparked a diplomatic row with the African Union, African governments and the United States. So is this a new form of racism? Or is it just Beijing trying to curb the pandemic? Presenter: Richelle Carey Guests Victor Gao, Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization Gabriella Dilan, medical student from Uganda Keith Richburg , Director of the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

Today's podcast is with Professor Ying Chan, an award-winning journalist, educator, e-learning advocate, and media strategist. She is a board member of the Media Development Investment Fund, and a member of the World Economic Forum Future Council on Information and Entertainment. She served on the Global Board of Open Society Foundations from 2013-17. A Hong Kong native, Chan spent 23 years in New York City, covering immigration, campaign finance and US China-relations for both Chinese and English language media, including the New York Daily News and NBC News. Since returning to HK in 1998, she has created two journalism schools as the founding director (1999-2016) and professor of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong, and the founding dean (2003-2012) of the journalism school at Shantou University in China. Both programs are early adopters of convergent media, data, and enterpreneurial journalism, while being grounded in the best international professional standards. She is a founding member of the the International Consortium for Investigation Journalists. Her honors include a Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism, a CPJ International Press Freedom Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Asian American Journalists Association, and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. She currently mentors media startups in relation to China and cross-border projects, while conducting research on media in China and transitional societies.

Patt Morrison talks with Doreen Weisenhaus Associate Professor and Director of the Media Law Project at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. 

June 15, 2018 Internet censorship in China has evolved from just blocking websites into an elaborate system of information control, says Fu King-wa, Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong. Fu has developed projects that track what has been deleted on the Chinese web. His assessment of the current situation is bleak: The space for public expression is depressingly small, he says. The authorities want to control everything. Yet the #MeToo debate in China also demonstrates that that not all discussion can be suppressed – even in China. Listen to Fu King-wa in the MERICS Experts podcast.

20 April 2016, with Yuen-ying Chan Media freedom in China has suffered under president Xi Jinping. In the latest press freedom index of Reporters without Borders China ranks at the bottom of the list followed only by Syria, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea. These are hard times for journalists in China, says professor Yuen-ying Chan. She is the founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at Hongkong University. But she also argues that despite tight censorship and increased controls, there are still spaces for independent and investigative journalism in China. And in the long run there is a glimmer of hope: “China cannot impose draconian controls forever.”

Will Facebook play a decisive role in the 2016 presidential primaries? Should Twitter be blamed for the rise of the Islamic State? Has the Chinese government successfully marginalized political dissent by controlling the companies that run China’s Internet? The fast-evolving power relationships — and clashes — among governments, corporations, and other non-state actors across digital networks pose fundamental challenges to how we think about governance, accountability, security, and human rights. Without new approaches to governance and accountability by public as well as private actors, the Internet of the future will no longer be compatible with the defense and protection of human rights. Nor will its users — or governments — be any more secure. Fortunately a nascent ecosystem of efforts are now experimenting with new ways to hold governments, companies, and other actors accountable when they exercise power across global networks. One such effort is the Ranking Digital Rights project, which sets forth a framework for measuring information and communication technology (ICT) companies’ commitments, policies, and practices affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. In this lecture, Ranking Digital Rights director Rebecca MacKinnon discusses the project’s Corporate Accountability Index as a concrete example how stakeholders around the globe are working to create new frameworks, mechanisms, and processes for holding power accountable and promoting the protection of human rights in a digitally networked world. . . . . . . . Rebecca MacKinnon is a leading advocate for Internet users’ rights to online freedom of expression and privacy around the world. She is author of the award-winning book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom (Basic Books, 2012). Presently based at New America in Washington, D.C., she directs the Ranking Digital Rights project whose Corporate Accountability Index ranks the world’s most powerful Internet and telecommunications companies on policies and practices affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. MacKinnon is co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, a borderless community of more than 800 writers, digital media experts, activists, and translators living around the world who give voice to the stories of marginalized and misrepresented communities and who advocate for the free expression rights of Internet users everywhere. She also serves on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists and is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder organization focused on upholding principles of freedom of expression and privacy in the ICT sector. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon was CNN’s Beijing bureau chief from 1998 to 2001 and Tokyo bureau chief from 2001 to 2003. Since leaving CNN in 2004 she has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press and Public Policy, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Open Society Foundations, and Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. For two years in 2007–08 she served on the faculty of the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, and taught as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Fall 2013. She is also a visiting affiliate at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Global Communications Studies. MacKinnon received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan. She presently lives in Washington, D.C.