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
America survives the Trump years
By Keith Richburg
/ November 16, 2020
THE STRATEGIST – In the end, the result didn’t come as quickly or definitively as many wanted, and as the...
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Monthly Newsletter: November 2020
By Keith Richburg
/ November 5, 2020
The most unusual American election in a lifetime—conducted during a pandemic, with record high early voting and no official conclusion...
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US media shows it’s learned the lessons of 2016 in denying Trump an ‘October surprise’
By Keith Richburg
/ October 30, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - With the US presidential election drawing to a close, everyone, it seems, is absorbing the lessons from...
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China Feels It No Longer Needs the Foreign Media. But It Still Can’t Hide.
By Keith Richburg
/ October 14, 2020
ASIALINK - After declaring a resounding victory against the COVID-19 pandemic, a newly-confident China so far this year has tested...
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Monthly Newsletter: October 2020
By Keith Richburg
/ October 6, 2020
Last month, The Washington Post ran a terrific story about student reporters as the “journalism heroes of the pandemic era”....
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Monthly newsletter: September 2020
By Keith Richburg
/ September 7, 2020
First, a few welcomes are in order. Welcome to the Bachelor of Journalism class of 2024—which will be our largest-ever...
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China transformed Hong Kong into a typical mainland city, almost overnight
By Keith Richburg
/ August 14, 2020
THE WASHINGTON POST - The free and open place we loved is gone.
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Monthly newsletter: July 2020
By keith
/ July 17, 2020
To say this unusual year has brought unprecedented challenges would be an understatement. I’d like to take this opportunity to...
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Ground-up versus top-down: how the US and China effect social change
By Keith Richburg
/ July 7, 2020
THE STRATEGIST - China’s Communist Party leaders have long understood the potency of symbols and the power to write history....
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