In-Depth and Investigative Reporting Workshop Renmin University | October 29-30, 2010 The second MEC workshop, In-depth and Investigative Reporting, was hosted by Renmin University’s School of Journalism and Communication. Graduate students from all MEC schools and members of the media were invited to apply for the workshop, and USCET received more than 200 applications! Topics…
Media Workshops USCET sponsored hands-on workshops for small groups of students at Media Education Consortium member schools as part of its Media Education programming. The workshops facilitate hands-on practice, with the goal to help professionalize the field of journalism in China. The first two workshops, both held in 2010, focused on reporting techniques. The first…
Media Fellows The USCET Media Fellows program supported the residence by Chinese professors of journalism and communications as visiting scholars at top journalism and communication colleges in the US. The program was established in 2006 at the University of Maryland, and along with the academic environment, visiting scholars also benefit from easy access to the…
Financial Media Institute 2006 USCET launched its inaugural FMI in a climate marked by liberalization in the news media but also several high-profile arrests, attempts to control access to the internet, and increasing but controversial investigative reporting. The Institute, an intensive 10-day series of lectures and practical assignments, offered 4th year and graduate journalism students…
Financial Media Institute 2008 The US-China Education Trust, the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the Fudan University School of Journalism jointly sponsored the second annual Financial Media Institute (FMI) in April 2008. Held at Fudan University, the second FMI brought together 30 fourth-year and graduate journalism students principally from Fudan and…
Financial Media Institute 2009 Hong Kong Baptist University hosted USCET’s third Financial Media Institute in 2009, bringing together a very strong group of students and practicing journalists from across Greater China. During the week-long program, 38 students and seven practicing journalists heard from 13 members of the FMI faculty. At the program’s conclusion participants were…
Financial Media Institute 2010 Fudan University | May 24-28, 2010 The fourth Financial Media Institute (FMI) was hosted by Fudan University’s School of Journalism in collaboration with Hong Kong Baptist University, and the University of Maryland Philip Merrill School of Journalism. It was directed by Zhou Nailing of Tsinghua University’s Global Business Journalism program, and…
Financial Media Institute 2011 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) will host the FMI for the second time in 2011. Victor Fung, HKBU’s FMI Director in 2009, will again direct this year’s institute. Mr. Fung has more than 27 years of experience in journalism, including newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal Asia, South China Morning…
Financial Media Institute USCET’s Financial Media Institute (FMI) was established at Fudan University’s School of Journalism in 2006, as a certificate program for fourth-year and graduate journalism students. The program offers participants a window into the practice of financial journalism in both China and the West, while boosting their knowledge of economic theory and finance,…
Journalist in Residence 2004 The inaugural Journalist-in-Residence program took place in May and June 2004, when Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist David S. Broder traveled to China to speak at Fudan University and Wuhan University. Broder lectured about the general practice of journalism in the United States, as well as his 50-year experience as a political…