Assistant Lecturer
nbaute@hku.hk

Nicole Baute is a Canadian writer and former journalist. Her work has appeared in a range of newspapers and literary journals including the New Quarterly, the Southern Humanities Review, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star, where she was a staff reporter.

A dedicated teacher, Nicole teaches creative writing online with Sarah Selecky Writing School and has worked with students in Accra, Ghana, as part of Journalists for Human Rights. She holds a Master of Journalism from Carleton University and is a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. In 2018, she won The Pinch Literary Award for Fiction.

Honorary Tutor

Chris Dobson is a veteran print journalist, TV producer and documentary filmmaker based in Hong Kong. He has also worked in the UK, US, and Australia and travelled widely on assignments throughout Asia, and many other parts of the world. He has lectured in broadcast journalism at the University of Hong Kong and conducts media training and crisis communications sessions for major hotel chains, corporations and businesses in the region. Chris has been running his own TV production company since 2003 and has produced a range of news and feature stories, corporate videos, documentaries and television series for various networks and channels including NBC, BBC, PBS and RTHK. In 2019-20 he worked on an independent documentary on the political turmoil in Hong Kong. Chris is now producing a series of videos for HKU and Baptist University, working on media training projects and will be lecturing on reporting and writing at HKU’s JMSC in the fall semester of 2022.

Honorary Lecturer

Crystal Tai is an editorial animator and motion designer. She is passionate about creative problem-solving and powerful storytelling.

Before starting her creative business, she was a video journalist at The Wall Street Journal in Asia, covering everything from technology, markets and the pandemic.

She currently directs and produces for various brands, news outlets and non-profits in the U.S., Canada and beyond. When not sketching she can be found cycling, cafe hopping or shopping ingredients for Indian cooking.

Honorary Lecturer

Wang Feng has worked for the Financial Times as Editor in Chief of FTChinese.com since April 2015. Prior to the FT, he was the editor of scmp.com, the online edition of the South China Morning Post, after moving to Hong Kong from Beijing in 2012. He was the founding editor of cn.reuters.com, the Chinese language financial news site of Reuters, and Editor in Charge of Reuters Chinese News service. He had also worked as a journalist for various Chinese news organisations including Caijing magazine in Beijing. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

Honorary Lecturer

Cindy Sui is a long-time journalist based in Asia. A Chinese American, she started her career covering crime, courts, education and minority affairs for a newspaper in California and later moved to Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan, where she reported for local, regional and international media for more than two decades.

Up until recently, she was the Taiwan correspondent for the BBC, covering a wide range of news about Taiwan, including cross-strait relations and the other challenges Taiwanese people face.

Prior to joining the BBC, Cindy was based in Beijing where she worked as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, covering a variety of news about China, including its entry to the WTO, mining and other accidents, and vast social-economic changes during the early 2000s.

In addition to the above, Cindy also worked in Hong Kong for the then Hong Kong Standard, SCMP and later AFP for two years right after the handover in 1997 and has freelanced for a variety of media, including the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and NBC News.

Cindy believes in lifelong learning and over the years, she has transformed herself from a print and agency journalist to a radio, TV and digital media one-person band, able to handle breaking news and develop in-depth features, as well as film and edit news videos that were some of the most viewed on the BBC’s website.

Assistant Lecturer

Jennifer Deayton has worked in print and broadcast media for more than 25 years. She began her career as a magazine and book editor in Taiwan and Hong Kong before earning a Masters of Fine Arts in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University. She produced and directed the award-winning documentary, Working Sister, as seen on NatGeo, and worked for CNN Hong Kong as a guest producer, studio director and video editor. She has also served as a story and video editor on productions for National Geographic, Discovery, TLC and SBS. In recent years, she has returned to feature writing, focusing on Asia-based stories.

Assistant Lecturer / Managing Editor of Annie Lab
mimilau@hku.hk

Mimi is an assistant lecturer at HKU Journalism and the managing editor of the Annie Lab. Prior to joining the faculty, Mimi was the China Correspondent for the South China Morning Post, covering politics and policies with a focus on human rights, religion, and ethnic affairs. Mimi received numerous awards in her 17-year career covering China and Hong Kong. She was also the host of SCMP’s Inside China podcast.

Honorary Lecturer

Julian is currently the managing director of Jervois One (HK) Limited, a leading public affairs consulting firm in Hong Kong serving public and private institutions. Jervois One and its sister companies provide services such as digital content and video productions, 3D animations, project design, implementation and management.

An award-winning journalist for over 12 years, Julian joined the HKSAR government in 2012 to serve as the Political Assistant to John Tsang, then Financial Secretary. He resigned in 2016 to lead Mr. Tsang’s campaign to run for the Chief Executive of HK in the 2017 election.

Julian received a bachelor’s degree of law and a master’s degree of journalism from The University of Hong Kong. He was a journalism fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford in 2009, supported by a Chevening Specialist Scholarship. He taught at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong in their master’s program of strategic communications from 2019 to 2022.

Honorary Lecturer

Ms. Yolanda Jinxin Ma was previously the Head of Digital Policy and Global Partnerships at the United Nations Development Programme. Based at UN Headquarters in New York City,  she leads the development and implementation of an inclusive digital transformation framework and its related products, collaborating with partners from private sector tech companies to donor governments;

As an award-winning cross-disciplinary professional, Yolanda has been actively teaching and promoting data journalism and digital technology for impact through online courses, offline workshops, and public speaking engagements.

She previously worked with UNDP’s Asia Pacific regional office in Bangkok for five years, focusing on social innovation and impact investment.  She started her career building social media practice and citizen engagement experiments for the South China Morning Post, as its first social media editor. She later joined Thomson Reuters in Hong Kong on a data visualization project on China’s leadership structure.

Honorary Lecturer

Prior to practising law, Andrew was a bilingual reporter for TVB News, where he also anchored the flagship newscasts News at Six-Thirty (六點半新聞) and Late News (晚間新聞).

Upon joining the Bar, Andrew was awarded the Charles Ching Memorial Scholarship. He maintains a solid civil practice with an emphasis on commercial disputes, company/insolvency, equity/trusts, land, probate, and public law.

Andrew also maintains a growing criminal law practice. In 2022, he was awarded the inaugural Patrick Yu Memorial Scholarship, which is given to high-calibre candidates to support their careers in criminal law.

Court work aside, Andrew teaches public law and media law at various tertiary institutions. He also co-authored the inaugural title Judicial Review in the Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong series.

Honorary Lecturer

Hui Siu Fun, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2011), is a veteran journalist with 29 years of experience in the local media industry. She specializes in writing feature stories and producing news documentaries. In the early stages of her career, she participated as a reporter in the launch of both the Cable TV news channel and Apple Daily. Later, she switched to TV news documentary production and served in the Public Affairs Division at TVB news department for 13 years. In 2016, she founded ‘Now Report’ (經緯線), a half-hour documentary program, at Now TV.

Her list of local and international awards includes the Peabody Award (Winner), the Asian Television Award (Best News Documentary), several New York TV & Film Festival Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award (Regional: Best News Documentary), and several International Human Rights Press Awards (First Prizes).

Teaching Assistant
tmbv@hku.hk

Tina joined the faculty ofJournalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong in 2019. She currently teaches editing and writing skills, focusing on hard news reporting as well as features. She has also been involved in producing video documentaries. Tina represents the new generation of local journalists–born and brought up in the SAR, very aware of both national and international media perspectives, full of energy and not afraid to ask challenging questions.

As a third-generation journalist–her grandfather and aunt were copy editors for both The Standard and South China Morning Post–Tina was an editor and reporter at The Standard. Besides working in the newsroom, she specialized in the hospitality sector. This included liaising with the PR and Marketing executives of the newspaper’s clients.

Tina graduated with honours from City University of Hong Kong earning a BA in English (Creative Writing). She is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Filipino.

In her spare time, she volunteers as a mentor to local ethnic minority students, focusing on uplifting the young women in the community she holds dear to her heart as a Filipino-Hongkonger.