GE2018-27

We are living in a globalised world with news circulating across the Internet instantly. Just with a click on your smartphones, you can read the news happening thousands of miles away. To facilitate some in-depth discussion on significant international and regional news, these Global News Chat sessions invite students from various backgrounds to share their personal views and insights on the issues that they care about.


Hosts:
Session 1 - Mr. Peter Eng (Honorary Lecturer, JMSC, HKU; Independent Journalism Trainer, Editor, and Writer)
Session 2 - Saalim Mohamed Abdulla (BSc Year 4) 
Session 3 - Sammie Ng (BA(UrbanStud) Year 2)
Other student hosts to be announced
Dates: 19/9 (Wed) - (date changed), 26/9 (Wed) & 2/10 (Tue)
Time: 16:30 – 18:00
Venue: Gatherland2046
Language: English

Online registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?ueid=59382 

Date	Time	Venue
19 Sep 2018	16:30 - 18:00	Gatherland2046
26 Sep 2018	16:30 - 18:00	Gatherland2046
02 Oct 2018	16:30 - 18:00	Gatherland2046

Bio of Instructor(s) 導師簡介:

Mr. Peter Eng (Host of Session 1)
Peter Eng is an Asian-American independent journalism trainer, editor, and writer. Since 1999, he has trained numerous journalists in across Asia, taught in universities, newsrooms, and workshops funded by international organisations, governments, and NGOs. As an independent journalist, Eng has written for prominent international media including Los Angeles Times, The Washington Quarterly, Columbia Journalism Review, The Wall Street Journal Asia, The New York Times, and International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times). Before that, he reported from across Asia during his 13 years as news editor in the Bangkok bureau of the Associated Press. Eng has an MA with Special Honours in political science from the University of Chicago and Stanford University in the U.S., and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.