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 Ka…

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…

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 Chi…

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…

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 arres…

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…

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…

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 ec…

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, …

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…

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? …

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 …

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 H…

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…

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 exhibitio…

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…

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 Hsi…

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 Ho…

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new development causes Henry to revisit his idea to broadcast the Melbourne Cup to Ballarat. His new role as a teacher causes some disquiet at the School of Mines - and a journey to London results in a meeting and world-first experiment with Nikola Tesla.Door Jarrod Watt

Henry Sutton died in 1912, aged 57 - but at the time he was working on an invention which brought together nearly all the ideas, innovations and theories he'd had since a teenager. His biographer Lorayne Branch points out the exact moment when he is written out of history, and updates the mission to restore his name and reputation.…

Henry returns from London inspired by his meeting with Nikola Tesla, and sets to work on a wireless system that results in trouble with Australia's largest government department and a surprise call to the US Navy. Meanwhile, Henry pursues ideas in two new industries that are dawning - the motorcar and the bicycle.…

Alexander Graham Bell gets the credit for the telephone, and Thomas Edison the light bulb - but it was Henry who designed the modern handset, and the process for mass manufacturing light bulbs. Also revealed: the Sutton battery that changed the world - and could have made Henry Sutton very rich... except for one major reason.…

The Suttons move to the goldfields of Ballarat and pitch their tent at Bakery Hill, not long before the battle of the Eureka Stockade. Nine months later young Henry is born, homeschooled in the family's music store workshop before discovering the local library... He starts in the footsteps of Leonardo Da Vinci, and by the time he is 14, conceives o…

A 15 year journey to find the real story of the man who proposed a television broadcast in 1885; the same man who devised and installed the world's first telephone network, and who - maybe - transmitted an MMS image with his friend Nikola Tesla in 1892. This is the story of a meeting with Henry Sutton's great-grand daughter Lorayne Branch in 2009, …