BEIJING
Tsinghua University
In April, 15 City Financial Journalism students travelled to China, first to Beijing and then to Shanghai. For the first week, students were based at Tsinghua University’s Global Business Journalism department in Beijing. The week started with lectures on understanding media policy and development by Min Hang, Director of the Global Business Journalism Program. Students also participated in the panel discussion with Tsinghua journalism students on business news data mining and analysis led by Lee Miller, Editor-at-Large for Bloomberg News.
Zhenzhi Guo, PhD, Professor of Broadcasting History sparked students’ interest with a fascinating discussion of the difficulties faced by broadcasters relating to censorship and political interference. Qingan Zhou, Director of International Communication Program and an anchor at CCTV, provided an international perspective on public diplomacy and relations in China. The very productive week was topped off by a lecture on multi-media and how it has changed journalism in the USA, China and around the world.
Students heard from Rick Dunham, a veteran political journalist and one of America’s foremost authorities on the use of social media for journalism. During the whole week students were accompanied and lectured by top academics and experts in the industry who introduced them to a very different reporting and editorial culture.
SHANGHAI
Fudan University
On Sunday April 27, students moved to another cradle of the financial world – Shanghai. They were warmly welcome by Fudan University, one of the oldest and most selective universities in China. The programme was very vivid and business-like and students had lots of opportunities to see how the financial industry works from inside.
They started with a lecture on Applied Media Management by Dr David Maguire, a former journalist at Shanghai Daily and former editor of Sunday Morning Post in Hong Kong. Doug Young, Reuters Correspondent and author of “The Party Line: How the Media Dictates Public Opinion in Modern China”, took students through group exercises on how both Chinese and foreign media report financial news in China, and the challenges and restrictions of their reporting.
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