Key-Trainer

Mr. Nicholas Phythian

Nicholas Phythian worked for Reuters for more than 20 years in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East as a reporter, sub-editor, bureau chief and editor. Political and general news is his specialty.

A Briton and former editor for general news and news production in Asia, he covered and helped coordinate Reuters' coverage of stories ranging from the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq and its aftermath to Ebola in Africa to the outbreak and spread of SARS.

As a consultant for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, he has run workshops in association with Beijing’s Tsinghua University and other partners on AIDS and TB, and on general news.

With UNICEF, he devised and ran a programme for journalists, UN and government press officers, and NGO representatives focusing on nutrition and its impact on the health of people living in Africa’s Sahel region.

 

Co-Trainer

Mr. B.Y. Wong

B.Y. had 30-years' journalistic experience before he retired from Reuters. He is now teaching post-graduate programme at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He involved into IPO (initial public offer) business in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges in 1990s and was once a non-executive director of Shanghai Vacuum, the first listed company in China’s B share market. B.Y. took charge of the promotion of Hong Kong’s tourist industry in Mainland China between 1997 and 2000 as the first regional director of HK Tourism Association based in Beijing.

B.Y. started as an apprentice journalist at the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua News Agency in mid-1960s. He joined the Hong Kong Bureau of Reuters as a correspondent between 1987 and 1990, after serving at Xinhua Hong Kong for a total of 22 years.

He rejoined Reuters in 2001 to head Reuters Chinese News, an editorial desk with 70+ journalists locating in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Toronto.