Keith B. Richburg, Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, spent more than 20 years overseas for The Washington Post. Now a Professor of Practice in Hong Kong, he teaches courses on Feature Writing, Covering China and Covering Global Affairs, while continuing his career as a freelance writer and an author.
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Recent Articles
Monthly newsletter: February 2020
By Keith Richburg / February 18, 2020
Greetings. and apologies for the delay in getting you this newsletter. We normally come back from the semester break with...
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Bird flu, Sars, China coronavirus. Is history repeating itself?
By Keith Richburg / January 27, 2020
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - The government did not warn the public for months, allowing people carrying the virus to...
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Monthly Newsletter: December 2019
By Keith Richburg / December 7, 2019
Should journalists rely on anonymous sources? There has been much recent talk among media analysts, critics and journalism educators about reporters...
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Beijing needs to change tack in wake of Hong Kong elections
By Keith Richburg / December 2, 2019
THE STRATEGIST - Make no mistake about it; Hongkongers’ overwhelming vote on 24 November was a clear and unequivocal repudiation...
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Too important or too irrelevant? Why Beijing hesitates to intervene in Hong Kong
By Keith Richburg / November 12, 2019
THE STRATEGIST - Two competing narratives might explain why China’s authoritarian communist rulers have so far displayed a relatively hands-off...
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Monthly Newsletter: November 2019
By Keith Richburg / November 8, 2019
Should the Hong Kong government register journalists and issue them an official press card? This question of journalist accreditation was...
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Monthly newsletter: October 2019
By Keith Richburg / October 10, 2019
For me, the split screen images of the past few weeks were two dramatic news events happening more than 8,000...
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Monthly newsletter: September 2019
By Keith Richburg / September 4, 2019
Message from Keith First of all, welcome to the new class of Master of Journalism students, and to the latest...
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Bringing Hong Kong back from the brink
By Keith Richburg / September 2, 2019
THE STRATEGIST - After 13 straight weekends of unrelenting protests and an increasingly harsh police response, Hong Kong’s worst political...
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Five myths about Hong Kong
By Keith Richburg / June 21, 2019
THE WASHINGTON POST - The massive protests in Hong Kong caught officials there by surprise and startled the mainland. Even...
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