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A five-day workshop to help journalists protect a media brand by handling hoaxes, rumours, legal and ethical problems with confidence. Participants will write their way through a series of problem stories based on past journalism disasters to see what decisions they would make. They will leave the course with advice on how to validate information flows that surround any complex story and how to make ethical decisions in difficult circumstances.


 After completing the course, participants will be able to:

  • Protect a media company brand by making logical ethical decisions on the use of media
  • Commit to publishing accurate, balanced, fair and objective stories, images and videos
  • Spot potential hoaxes and handle rumours
  • Identify potential legal problems
  • Explain the provisions of the applicable contents of the Code of Conduct and product guidelines
  • Develop the intuition to identify potential right-against-wrong dilemmas and solve them
  • Deploy simple philosophical arguments to try and resolve right-against-right issues



Eligibility

Senior journalists from East Asian countries with at least three years’ experience. Proficiency in spoken English is recommended.

Applicants must be from East Asian countries, including those from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and ASEAN countries.

Admission Deposit
  • HKD 4,000 by cheque (local) or USD 500 by bank draft (non-local) payable to “The Chinese University of Hong Kong”. The deposit will be refunded to participants after completion of the programme.
  • Tutorial cost and five days’ lunches are all covered. Welcome and farewell dinners and campus tour may also be arranged.
  • For non-local participants, six nights’ accommodation in Hong Kong will be paid by the organizers. (Check in: 23 November 2014; check out: 29 November 2014)

How to Apply

Please download the application form and submit it with samples of published work via email to reuterscom@cuhk.edu.hk or mail to School of Journalism and Communication, Humanities Building, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shain, Hong Kong.

Application Deadline: 6 October 2014
Application Form: ( WORD / PDF )

Applications will be processed on a rolling basis. Early applications are strongly encouraged. Places are limited.

Keith Stafford

Trained over 1,000 foreign correspondents for the Reuters News agency, the international news agency based in London that operates 160 bureaus. Specialises in teaching in multicultural classes all aspects of journalism, newsroom management, financial journalism workshops and subediting, using case-based simulations to meet specific learning objectives. Managed Reuters foreign reporting bureaus worldwide, including Washington, Tokyo, London desks and Singapore. Reported from over 20 countries. Taught and coached in more than 30. Chief sub-editor and journalism trainer for the Olympic News Service at the Beijing Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and Turin and for the 2006 Asian Games, Qatar. Taught nearly 30 courses overseas in 2009.

Benjamin Kang Lim

Since joining Reuters in 1991, Ben has been consistently involved in breaking some of the biggest news out of China and Taiwan. He was among a small select group of foreign journalists who interviewed then Chinese President Hu Jintao ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2007, Ben, then Greater China chief political correspondent, and his team won Reuters’ Scoop of the Year award for correctly predicting the new line-up of the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee – the apex of power in China – in a country where few insiders are willing to talk to the media lest they be jailed for leaking state secrets. In 2004, he was instrumental in Reuters obtaining an exclusive interview with then Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao whose comments on China’s overheating economy sent financial markets across the world tumbling. He told the world in 1997 that paramount leader Deng Xiaoping. State media confirmed his death days later. He also broke news about the death of purged party chief Zhao Ziyang in 2005 and North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006. Ben was previously Beijing and Taipei bureau chief. He interviewed Taiwan’s then President Chen Shui-bian twice. Born in Manila to Chinese parents, Ben studied engineering in the Philippines and Chinese in Taiwan.

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