IMMJMA Graduation 2017

In October the UoB-BFSU International Multimedia Journalism  MA Program held it’s annual graduation event. A total of 18 students graduated and the event was also attended by #IMMJMA alumni and partner media organisations such as China Daily and CGTN. Stacy Xue, one...

The End of Newspapers and Future of News

Australian futurist Ross Dawson will be hosting a short discussion at Beijing Foreign Studies University on 19 May to discuss the changing media environment in China. Ross Dawson is well known for his formulas to predict a newspaper extinction timeline around the...

Stephen Mayes lecture March 2011

The second intensive workshop ended on 18 March with a lecture by Stephen Mayes, managing director of VII Photo in New York, and co-secretary of the World Press Photo jury. Stephen is one of the leading figures in the industry, and he spoke to the students about the...

Term 1 finishes in Beijing

The first term of the International Multimedia Journalism MA finished with a two week intensive in late November 2010. Guest lecturers Tania Branigan, Linda Kennedy, Robert Pledge, Jonak Kessel, Brian Palmer, Dan Chung, Huang Wen and Adam Dean joined with tutors D J...

MA prominent at Orange Photo Festival

The Orange Photo Festival in Changsha, China – held during October 2010 – was dominated by work and talks from MA programme staff and students. The festival was part-organised by graduates Wang Xi and Jerry Liu and included a multimedia workshop by...

New MA course starts in Beijing

At the end of September 2010 a new batch of students started the MA International Multimedia Journalism course in Beijing. The students are mostly professional media practitioners including designers, photographers, writers and film makers. It is a global class, with...