David L. Bandurski
Director
Now director of the CMP, leading the project’s research and partnerships, David joined the team in 2004 after completing his master’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He is currently an honorary lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre. He is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village (Penguin/Melville House), a book of reportage about urbanization and social activism in China, and co-editor of Investigative Journalism in China (HKU Press).
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
Managing Editor
Ryan has worked as a journalist in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan for close to a decade, covering the region for a variety of local and international media. He holds a BA in Modern China Studies and a Master of Journalism degree from the University of Hong Kong and has also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and National Taiwan University.
Chu Yang
CMP Contributor
Chu Yang is a freelance journalist and researcher with a particular interest in China’s digital culture and the global influence of Chinese media. She previously co-founded Cenci Journalism Project, a multimedia platform reporting on China’s marginalized groups, and several other civic journalism initiatives. Before starting her independent projects, she covered China’s economy and finance for Caixin. Chu is pursuing a Mundus Journalism master’s degree in journalism, media and globalization, and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism.
Raphael Chan
CMP Contributor
Raphael recently graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Laws degree. At the China Media Project, he has researched on China’s cyberspace policy and the overseas presence of Chinese media.
Joyce Chan
CMP Contributor
Joyce Chan is a freelance researcher with a particular interest in Chinese politics, media and foreign policy. She is fluent in Cantonese, English, Mandarin, German and Swedish.
Kevin Schoenmakers
CMP Contributor
Kevin Schoenmakers is a Shanghai-based freelance journalist.
Sara Yurich
CMP Translator
Currently freelance translator for the China Media Project, Sara previously co-founded Just the Ticket, a Hong Kong-based non-profit organization providing access to cultural events to people in need. From 2011 to 2015, she was media and communications officer for Human Rights in China, based in Hong Kong, where she led video and other multimedia projects.
Xinyu Deng
2022-2023 CMP Intern
Xinyu is a double master’s degree candidate in Global Media and Communications (LSE & USC), and in 2021 was a research member in the [email protected] Knowledge Exchange Internship Program. His research interests include Chinese media development, media representation, and media and data ethics. In 2020, he was an intern journalist at Xinhua News Agency.
Currently a senior lecturer of journalism at City University of London, Yuen Chan is a journalist who has worked in print, television and radio as a reporter, anchor and presenter and columnist in Hong Kong, where she covered news in the territory in the years leading up to and after the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997. She was stationed in Shanghai and Beijing as a correspondent between 2003 and 2008. Yuen was previously Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Kecheng Fang (方可成) is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Chinese University of Hong Kong, his areas of research focussing on how media organizations deal with journalism in crisis, new actors in online content provision and how platforms and algorithms influence the information environment. Kecheng earned his PhD in 2019 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly a journalist at Southern Weekly, a newspaper based in Guangzhou.
Christian Göbel holds the Chair of Sinology with a Social Science Orientation at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. Christian’s research has focussed on the relationship between technological innovation, political innovation and regime stability in East Asia. He is currently engaged in two research projects: one examining the impact of information technologies on regime stability in China, the other examining the determinants of successful political innovation.
Currently director of “HKU Journalism,” Keith Richburg is a journalist and former China correspondent who spent more than 30 years overseas for The Washington Post, serving as bureau chief in Paris, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Nairobi, and Manila. After retiring from the Post in 2013, he became a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and a lecturer of international reporting at Princeton University. Keith’s coverage has won numerous awards, including two George Polk Awards, and was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his reports from Somalia. His 1997 book, Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, chronicles his travels across Africa.
Marina Svensson is director and professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, where she received her PhD in Chinese in 1996. Marina’s research focuses on a range of topics related to contemporary Chinese society. Her books include Chinese Investigative Journalists’ Dreams: Autonomy, Agency and Voice, Debating Human Rights in China: A Conceptual and Political History, and Making Law Work: Chinese Laws in Context. She has served as an external reviewer of articles to academic journals such as China Quarterly, China Information, Journal of International Communication, and Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.
