Reels of Integrity

You can take Professor Ruby Yang out of film, but you cannot take film out of Ruby Yang.Professor Yang won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2007 for The Blood of Yingzhou District about the effects of AIDS on orphans in the province of Anhui in...

Insights on Indigenous Ainu

Professor Edwin Michielsen, who joined HKU’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures as an Assistant Professor specialising in modern Japanese literature in July 2022, was given opportunities last year when he received two fellowships to further his research project...

Speaking to Power

Before social media took hold in the late 2000s, traditional newspapers were a key player in the media landscape, but they mainly reported on the movements and activities of government leaders or, if they were commercialised, on entertainment-oriented news....

The Fact Checkers

About 15 years ago, Professor Masato Kajimoto from HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) noticed a worrying trend. Reputable media outlets were publishing stories from social media without checking if they were true – stories such as the rumoured death of...

A New Spin on Fake News

Which of these is ‘fake news’ – anti-vaxxers posting unfounded stories against COVID-19 vaccines on social media? Or the British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, publishing a fake article about a climate change study? For Professor Rachel Sterken, Chairperson of...