Hong Kong and the Role of the Media

I hope that, although it is Reading Week, as many of you as possible will be able to make it to our lecture on Wednesday. As you know, our topic will be the media - the coverage of Hong Kong in the local, mainland and foreign media, as well as the role of the media in the SAR. We will have two great guests:

• Zoher Abdoolcarim, Senior Editor at Time Asia and my former colleague at Asiaweek
• Liu Kin-ming, Director of Special Projects at the Hong Kong Economic Journal, a blogger on PostGlobal, and former opinion page editor and general manager of the Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily

We are very fortunate to have two of Hong Kong's top journalists coming to class. In advance of our session, you might read Zoher's thoughtful Time Asia cover story on the tenth anniversary of the handover, which I have recommended before. The anniversary issue includes an interesting roundtable discussion in which Anson Chan, Christine Loh, tycoon Gordon Wu, China Daily editor Raymond Zhou and Daniel Fung participated. You might also check out Kin-ming's excellent blog.