Yuen-Ying Chan, is journalism professor and founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, at The University of Hong Kong. A Hong Kong native, she established JMSC in September 1999. There she created the first professional graduate journalism program in Hong Kong and China, launched Hong Kong’s first fellowships for working journalists, and forged extensive ties between HKU and the news industry. In 2002, she created another journalism program at Shantou University, China. At both HKU and Shantou University, she built an international faculty that teaches fact-based journalism.

Prior to joining HKU, she spent 23 years working as reporter and editor for Chinese- and English-language dailies in New York City. From 1990 to 1997, she worked as a reporter at the New York Daily News and has reported for CBS 60 Minutes and NBC Dateline. Chan was a 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and won both a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. She taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and is a member of the board of the Peabody Awards for electronic media since 2003.

Her areas of interest include China’s media, investigative journalism, journalism education, professional practices and cultural studies of the media. Chan has a bachelor’s degree (Social Sciences) from HKU and a Masters (Sociology) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.