Episodes
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Hear veteran broadcast journalist Karen Koh in discussion with Chinese foreign correspondent Dr Rose Luqiu and Hong Kong-born international broadcast journalist Laura Westbrook on the upcoming US election, from an Asian perspective: what is being discussed on Chinese social media and in state media, how "third culture" people view the attacks on Kamala Harris' mixed race heritage, how sexism and "strongman" culture dominate Chinese media narrative how US foreign policy is viewed very differently from this side of the world.
Episode written and produced by Jarrod Watt
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Grammy and Pulitzer-prize winning trumpeter, composer and band leader Wynton Marsalis has this month toured with his Lincoln Jazz Centre Orchestra through Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong dropped by for a QandA at the FCC with Robin Ewing, director of the Journalism Masters program at Hong Kong Baptist University and presenter of the RTHK3 'Feelin Kinda Sunday' program. It was incidentally the 63rd birthday for Mr Marsalis, and he reflects on his childhood, what he's learned teaching new generations of musicians as well as new compositions of music influenced by a tradition of American jazz in China begun almost 100 years ago. You’ll also hear the audience Q & A session in which Mr Marsalis fields questions about the role of AI in music, gender bias in jazz, comparisons between jazz and journalism, the traditions of democracy and jazz, as well as his deeply felt intellectual response to hip-hop music.
Photo credit: Ben Marans @benmaransphotography
https://www.benmaransphotography.com/
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Author, broadcaster and art critic John Batten discusses the life and legacy of architect IM Pei with Karen Koh, based on his published article in the latest FCC magazine "A Life in Architecture". Hear the history and symbolic post-colonial importance of the design of the Bank of China building, wrongly characterized as "a knife pointed towards China", and of the details you need to know in the M+ exhibition on IM Pei's life and works.
Episode written and produced by Jarrod Watt
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Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association discusses the revelations of a campaign to intimidate journalists and their families by self-described "patriots" in what appears to be a coordinated campaign, how the Hong Kong government and tech companies Meta and Wikimedia have responded, and how the HKJA is helping journalists fight back. Hear her also speak to her own experience of losing her job at the Wall Street Journal soon after becoming chair of the HKJA, and the support she has received globally from WSJ staff, fellow journalists and unions based in the USA.
Episode written, produced and presented by Jarrod Watt
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Hong Kong journalists’ union says reporters, relatives and their bosses targeted in harassment campaign; SCMP Sept 13, 2024Hong Kong Customs clarifies on Hong Kong Journalists Association's press conference; Hong Kong Govt Sept 13, 2024Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hear the FCC statement published on August 29th upon the trial and conviction of Hong Kong journalists Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam for their roles in reporting, editing and publishing interviews, features and opinion pieces. Of the 17 articles the court considered, many had been taken down and only five remained active at the time of their arrest, but the Wan Chai District Court ruled that 11 had “seditious intentions”.
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Britt Clennett is a correspondent for US broadcaster ABC News, based in Hong Kong and has spent the past 10 years covering stories in Hong Kong, mainland China and most recently Ukraine and Gaza. In this conversation she discusses her feature article 'Staying Human' in which she looks at the challenges to journalistic impartiality, finding humanity amongst deep generational hatred, and how she deals with the mental health challenges in covering violent and bloody conflict.
Episode written, produced and presented by Jarrod Watt
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An in-depth discussion between FCC president Lee Williamson and Joe Kahn, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, former China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and executive editor of the New York Times since 2022. Kahn discusses how the NYT coverage of Hong Kong and mainland China has changed, and how it reflects the changing environment of local and national security laws as well as the relationship between Beijing and Washington. Hear also how the NYT works to maintain its editorial independence and confront disinformation in this US election year, and how the ongoing digital transition has changed reporting, how Instagram and TikTok have changed priorities, and how generative AI challenges journalists' ethics, as well as the NYT lawsuit against Open AI.
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Stephen Roach, former Wall Street chief economist and Hong Kong-based chair of Morgan Stanley Asia, caused controversy earlier this year with the publishing of an opinion piece headlined "It pains me to say Hong Kong is over." His case reflected three considerations - the tight economic linkages between Hong Kong and a faltering mainland Chinese economy, the crossfire of the US-China conflict and the tough political climate in the aftermath of the new national security laws enacted by Beijing and Hong Kong.
Hear him speak about the fallout of that opinion piece in the ensuing months since publishing, hear about the issues and considerations he is focused on for Hong Kong and mainland China in the immediate future, and hear the questions asked of him at the FCC Club Lunch on June 5th, moderated by FCC Correspondent Governor Jenn Jett.
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Laura Westbrook and Aaron Busch present this special episode for the return of the FCC Hong Kong journalism conference. Hear from David Pierson (New York Times) about the challenges of covering Beijing's foreign policy and China's geopolitics from Hong Kong; Kathleen Magramo (CNN) on the lessons she learned in her first year of journalism in 2019, Filipino representation in Hong Kong and covering the Philippines; and veteran journalist and editor Chris Yeung, 25-year veteran of the South China Morning Post, founder of news platforms Citizen News and Voices of Hong Kong, former chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, talking about the culture of Hong Kong journalism and the challenges of reporting in Hong Kong in an environment governed by Article 23 and Beijing's security laws.
Episode written, produced and presented by Jarrod Watt
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Christina Pantin presents an episode talking about the other great Olympics competition: to get the best photo, the best story, the best quote.
Josh Ball is News Editor, Sport & Racing for the South China Morning Post and has covered previous Olympics and major international sports events both as a desk editor and frontline reporter for the past 25 years.
Peter Parks is the chief photographer for the Hong Kong bureau of Agence France Presse (AFP) and also Correspondent Governor of FCC. He has spent over 30 years covering Hong Kong, mainland China and international sporting events including the 2008 Shanghai Games.
Hear them discuss how this year's Paris Olympics will be overshadowed by geopolitical events, how the coverage will be vastly changed by the technology being used, and hear about some of the momentous sporting moments they've found themselves witnessing and reporting.
Episode written and produced by Jarrod Watt
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Hear three senior journalists discuss the big issues for women in journalism upon International Women's Day. How have attitudes changed for women in newsrooms across southeast Asia, what are the biggest challenges they face, what is the future of journalism, and what do they have to say to the upcoming generations of women entering the profession?
This panel discussion was part of the Hong Kong International Literature Festival and is moderated by Anasuya Sanyal, a former broadcast journalist and current communications coach who has been based in Asia for 20 years. She speaks with Jervina Lao, a former news journalist who has covered various history-making events in Asia for almost 20 years, working currently as freelance writer and editor; Caitlin Liu, a writer and editor in Hong Kong, published in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times; and Zela Chin, FCC journalist governor, and multiple award-winning journalist working in Hong Kong.
All three are contributors to an anthology of 22 women, edited by Rita Lee and published by Penguin Random House, "Stories Women Journalists Tell".
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Hear the submission made by the board of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong to the government over the proposed Article 23 security legislation, as well as the panel discussion on its implications for journalism featuring Ronson Chan (chair, Hong Kong Journalists' Assoc), Regina Ip (politician, member of LegCo) and Professor Simon Young (barrister). Music courtesy Allen Youngblood.
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FCC journalist member governor Zela Chin speaks with 2024 Claire Hollingworth Fellows Mithil Aggarwal and Aruzhan Zeinulla discuss their journey into journalism, how GenZ media habits are changing the media landscape and thoughts on the future. Christina Pantin looks at the various incarnations of the FCC from its beginnings in 1949 Shanghai, its Hollywood and literature links up to the present day, with a special interview with Allen Youngblood; pianist, composer, bandleader and musical director of Bert's Lounge.
Episode written and produced by Jarrod Watt
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It was a slow news day that went for two years - when Christopher Chau and Maggie Hoi Pui Man found themselves confined to Macau from December 2021 to November 2022 they found themselves rediscovering the city and its landmarks. They started taking notes, doing interviews and ended up writing the book 'Macau's Historical Witnesses', exploring Macau's history through a collection of vignettes, anecdotes and urban myths from more than 20 landmarks.
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Teele Rebane speaks in-depth with one of the newest FCC members, Aaron Busch, about how his @tripperhead Twitter account became an invaluable source to Hong Kong journalists, his role as 'social media journalist' and relationship with traditional journalism as well as his forecast for Twitter and its rivals. Following on from the historic exhibition of Hong Kong pandemic memes on the hallowed walls of the FCC bar, author/owner of the @HKMehmeh Instagram account Nancy Lim talks about how she turned a bored distraction and her sense of humour into a professional business: memes for brands and corporations, how she taps into the HK zeitgeist and what subjects she just won't touch.
Episode written and produced by Jarrod Watt
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It is now almost eight years since Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished on its way to Beijing, on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. “Good night, Malaysia 370” are the last words the world ever heard from the plane, about 40 minutes after its take-off from Kuala Lumpur. This is the starting point of what has since been called the greatest mystery in the history of civil aviation. French-Kiwi journalist Florence de Changy was dispatched to Kuala Lumpur to cover the story for Le Monde. Her first instinct was that a B-777, one of the safest planes ever built, let alone in a region that is monitored 24/7 by two global superpowers, the US and China, could not just vanish. She investigated the story for years; reviewed and dissected clues, data, official and confidential reports related to MH370; and met with sources and witnesses in more than 20 countries, until she reached the inconvenient conclusion that the official narrative was a fabrication.
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Singapore’s ruling party has proven exceptionally adept at accommodating global shifts, economic pressures, and changing popular sentiments — without significant democratisation or political liberalisation. A new cycle of managed renewal is in the works again, with 49-year-old technocrat Lawrence Wong slated to take over from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. This panel will look at the resilience and contradictions of Singapore’s governance model in the light of Hong Kong’s own dramatic political transformation. It will also discuss the two cities’ shifting positions in the global economy. Cherian George and Donald Low are the co-authors of PAP v PAP: The Party’s Struggle to Adapt to a Changing Singapore, a national non-fiction bestseller when it was released in 2020. Moderated by FCC President Keith Richburg. Originally recorded 30 Jul 2022
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FCC Correspondent Member Governor Austin Ramzy. moderate this conversation and discussion with author Luisa Lim. After protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, long-time HongKonger and journalist Louisa Lim interviewed guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists to put together a story of Hong Kong as told from the perspectives of its locals. Lim’s deeply researched and personal account in ‘Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong’, published in April by Penguin Random House imprint Riverhead books, casts startling new light on the city’s origins as a place of refuge and rebellion, and on its key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose.
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Award-winning journalist, Maria Ressa, discusses the growing threats to a free press in the Philippines and Asia, and how dedicated journalists are banding together to fight back. Recorded 17/05/2019
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