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The Correspondent
by FCC Hong Kong
A podcast featuring the conversations and interviews held at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Korean Messiah: Jonathan Cheng on the Christian roots of North Korea's personality cult
Pyongyang was once a city so dominated by Christianity that it was known as the " Jerusalem of the East." Today it stands as the capital of North Korea's oppressive dictatorship that has become one of the world's harshest persecutors of the Christian faith. Editor and journalist Jonathan Cheng is...
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Hong Kong journalism persists: Selina Cheng and other news from FCC president Morgan Davis
Morgan Davis, president of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Hong Kong, discusses the recent public statement on behalf of the FCC board and membership regarding the recent court victory for journalist Selina Cheng, related to her role as elected chair of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association....
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2026 Hong Kong journalism conference: GenZ, AI, Substack, personal branding & mental health
The 10th annual journalism conference held by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong brought together an eclectic, intergenerational group of journalists and people working in media creation to hear panel discussions and participate in workshops on everything from practical AI usage in...
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How journalists can survive and thrive in the AI age: Diana Wu David on career resilience
What now for careers in journalism, with the onset of AI technology and an "age of abundance" of information? Karen Koh, veteran broadcast journalist and first vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong speaks with Diana Wu David, a former FT executive and top 50 global...
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Understanding moral injury in journalists: Dean Yates in conversation
FCC member governor Jing Yang in conversation with Dean Yates about moral injury, how it affects journalists, understanding how moral injury develops, and fostering a supportive organizational structure in newsrooms. Dean Yates knows what it means to live with the consequences of the stories you...
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2026 FCC journalism conference preview: cutting through the noise
FCC Clare Hollingsworth fellow Samra Zulfaqar previews this year's journalism conference, discussing the challenges and pressures for GenZ journalists, the need to embrace personal branding for journalists, how social media and the rise of influencers are changing how news organisations approach...
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Hong Kong press freedom: what FCC member journalists say
What do the journalists and correspondents of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong have to say about press freedom? FCC correspondent member governor and bureau chief for The Information, Jing Yang discusses the results of the press freedom survey taken of FCC members, in which local...
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Pekingnology, Trump in Beijing, Substack versus newsroom journalism: Zichen Wang
As Donald Trump’s upcoming China visit draws global attention, what’s happening behind the scenes in Beijing? Zichen Wang, author of the Substack newsletter Pekingnology and former Xinhua correspondent is a guest speaker at the upcoming FCC Hong Kong journalism conference, and speaks in-depth…
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Beyond the Strait of Hormuz: Shipping, Insurance, the "Tehran Tollway" and Its Global Impact
Journalist Laura Westbrook speaks with Tim Huxley, CEO and director of Hong Kong-based shipowner Mandarin Shipping along with Mithun Varkey, editor-in-chief of Insurance Asia News, about the escalating conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and its global fallout. Since the Israel/US war upon Iran and...
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The First Night: homelessness, photography and stories from the streets of Hong Kong
FCC Hong Kong Vice President and veteran broadcaster Karen Koh sits down with photojournalist Ben Marans in the Hughes Room to talk about a powerful new exhibition at the FCC main bar this April. The show features images captured by individuals who learned photography through workshops run by...
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Inside Art Week, Hong Kong: Art Basel tips, must-see Hong Kong galleries and more with John Batten
Veteran art critic John Batten takes a fresh look at Art Basel Hong Kong, cutting through the usual headlines about record auction prices and celebrity artists. He explores the wider Hong Kong art scene—from the city’s evolving art market history and the rise of regional art fairs to how global...
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Reporting on Hong Kong's Tai Po tower fires: Laura Westbrook and Elaine Lai
Laura Westbrook and Elaine Lai are journalists both born and raised in Hong Kong and both were reporting on the Tai Po tower fires for foreign news organisations. In many ways they experienced this news event very differently from both local and overseas born journalists covering this disaster....
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Professor Joseph E Stiglitz in conversation: Trump's USA, the AI bubble, US-China relations and "G minus one"
Nobel laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz delivers a stark assessment of America's economic trajectory in this compelling and wide-ranging conversation with veteran broadcast journalist and Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong first vice president Karen Koh. Drawing parallels between current...
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Karen Hao and the Empire of AI: Open AI’s financial risks, ethical controversies and global influence
This episode is the audio of a recent FCC Hong Kong Club Lunch, moderated by FCC correspondent governor Jing Yang, in conversation with award-winning investigative journalist Karen Hao. Hao's investigation of Open AI and her subsequent book the Empire of AI is a bestseller. Yang begins the...
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Gen Z journalists talk careers, dealing with AI, phone/life balance & beyond: FCC’s Hollingsworth Fellowship
Meet some of the Gen Z journalists awarded the Clare Hollingsworth Fellowship for the Foreign Correspondent's Club in Hong Kong: Jay Ganglani, Kriti Gandhi, and Samra Zafalqar. The Fellowship is named in honour of Clare Hollingsworth, a legendary journalist and a long time member of the FCC…
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Inside China’s AI-driven media revolution: one sentence prompts, AI content factories, what it means for Western media
Western media companies continue to wrestle with the ethics of utilising AI in the newsroom as concerns continue over how many human journalists will be left in charge. According to a report in Digiday, the Reuters newsroom is now using agentic AI, creating and processing video metadata to cut...
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Visa denial for Bloomberg journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins: FCC Hong Kong statement
Statement issued on on behalf of the FCC Hong Kong board on Friday, August 22: The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong is deeply concerned by the confirmation that Bloomberg journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins has had her visa renewal application denied. Choong Wilkins has worked for Bloomberg…
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Hong Kong Is a City… (a tribute to the Fragrant Harbour and Gay Talese)
A love letter to Hong Kong and a tribute to the journalist credited with changing modern journalism. In 1960 the acclaimed journalist Gay Talese wrote a piece for Esquire magazine titled “New York Is A City of Things Unnoticed”, detailing his many observations of people and places based on his...
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In conversation with the president: Morgan Davis
Morgan Davis is the newly elected president for the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong and in this episode discusses the priorities she has in her term, taking on everything from lease negotiations and statements about press freedom to the battle against bad coffee and the long list of...
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Behind the Napalm Girl photo controversy: memory, ethics & myths of the photo of the century
Broadcast journalist Laura Westbrook sits down with arts journalist, curator and longtime FCC member John Batten in the room known as the "Bunker" in the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong to unravel the controversy behind the iconic photo known officially as "The Terror of War" and known...
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David Webb: Webb-site shareholder activism, Hong Kong economics and corporate governance
David Webb, a renowned investor and activist, discusses his journey and contributions to Hong Kong's corporate governance and transparency. He talks about his background as a schoolboy investor, how he got to Hong Kong and about how he built his nonprofit platform, webb-site.com, which provides...
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Laurel Chor: from Hong Kong to Ukraine, how young journalists leverage Instagram, mental health realities
Kriti Gandhi is one of the Claire Hollingworth Fellows for Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong, in this episode she sits down with Laurel Chor, an acclaimed Hong Kong-born journalist and visual storyteller known for her incisive reporting and striking photography. Laurel opens up about her...
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AI ethics in newsrooms: video production, fighting deepfakes, policies and labelling
Generative AI is changing our newsrooms, but how do we explain to the audience when it's being used, and how? As deepfakes become ubiquitous, how are newsrooms combating faked photos and video? How do journalists and editors handle photos and video sent in by the public if their phones are now...
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Grace Shao: covering AI in Hong Kong, beyond the US-China conflict narrative, evolving to Substack
Grace Shao is a journalist covering the AI industry from Hong Kong, focusing on China's tech companies and the commercialisation of AI. She talks about the "Deep Seek moment" over the Lunar New Year holiday in 2025, how it upended the accepted paradigm of generative AI development, and analyses…
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Hong Kong press freedom and the 2025 FCC Journalism Conference: Lee Williamson
Lee Williamson discusses the results of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong 2025 Press Freedom survey and the upcoming annual journalism conference with Robin Ewing, broadcaster on RTHK3 and director of the Masters of International Journalism program at Hong Kong Baptist University. The...
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Analysing global shipping crises: Trump's port fees, Panama, Ukraine and Hong Kong's role
FCC Correspondent Governor Jennifer Jett moderates a panel of Hong Kong-based shipping industry veterans to discuss the many challenges facing the global shipping industry, including the latest salvo in Trump's trade war with China, called Section 301, which states any ship built, owned or…
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"The M Factor: shredding the silence on menopause" panel discussion & audience Q&A
Veteran broadcast journalist and FCC correspondent member governor Karen Koh convenes a panel discussion and an in-depth, personal and revealing QandA with the audience after a screening of "The M Factor: shredding the silence on menopause" documentary. The panel includes: Christine Deschemin, a...
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Hong Kong art week: Enid Tsui talks Art in Hong Kong, "red lines", economic growth and the future
Hong Kong was once the poster-child of artistic freedom in Asia as well as an unparalleled leader of the region's booming contemporary art market. However, despite growing uncertainties over the "red lines" of censorship, there are more world-class art institutions in the city than ever before…
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Racial equity in Hong Kong: reality or myth?
Hong Kong categorises people who are not Chinese or caucasian as "ethnic minorities" and its media often portrays these people as an underclass of criminals, incapable of making contribution to mainstream society. In this panel discussion, journalist and FCC Clare Hollingworth fellow Jay Ganglani...
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#IWD2025: talking women in journalism, what (still) needs to change, and navigating the tech broligarchy backlash
Multiplatform broadcast journalist Laura Westbrook speaks with fellow journalists and members of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club: Zela China, journalist governor on the FCC board, broadcast journalist, president of the Asia chapter of the Asian American Journalist's Association, and…
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Ghost signs of Hong Kong: Instagram journalism & documenting history with Billy Potts & Ben Marans
Veteran broadcast journalist Karen Koh speaks with writer/designer Billy Potts and collaborator/photographer Ben Marans about their HK Ghost Signs project, recording and documenting signs in Hong Kong left behind and found in all sorts of locations, marking different eras, technologies and…
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The cartoonist & the president: Harry Harrison & Lee Williamson unpack the year 2024
Journalist and broadcaster Laura Westbrook sits down with two members of the FCC for two very different perspectives on 2024 and the year that was. Harry Harrison might just be the last surviving daily editorial cartoonist in Hong Kong, and speaks about his favourite news moments of the year, the...
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Kriti Gandhi and Jay Ganglani: the future of news, GenZ and approaching news differently
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong announced a little while ago that Kriti Gandhi and Jay Ganglani are the recipients of the sixth annual Clare Hollingworth Fellowship, named in honor of the preeminent and path-breaking journalist. Listen in as they discuss why they chose careers in...
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Asian journalists analyze the US election: how gender, race issues and media coverage differ
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...
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Wynton Marsalis: talking jazz, education, China, culture, technology and beyond
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…
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Architect I.M. Pei, the Bank of China, Hong Kong and a global legacy: John Batten
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,...
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Selina Cheng: Hong Kong journalists under attack, fighting back and what happens next
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...
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FCC statement: sedition convictions of Hong Kong journalists
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...
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Britt Clennett: covering Ukraine and Gaza wars, mental health and social media self-defence
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...
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In conversation: New York Times executive editor, Joe Kahn
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,...
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Stephen Roach on the future of Hong Kong: "an audacious wake-up call"
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...
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FCC Conference preview: David Pierson; Kathleen Magramo; Chris Yeung
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...
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Talking sports, Olympics journalism and photography: Peter Parks and Josh Ball
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…
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#IWD International Women's Day : the Stories Women Journalists Tell
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...
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Journalism, Article 23 and Hong Kong: Ronson Chan, Regina Ip and Simon Young
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...
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GenZ journalists on OSINT, social media, changing news habits; FCC history and Allen Youngblood on jazz in Hong Kong
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…
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Bonus Correspondent: rediscovering Macau with Christopher Chu and Maggie Hoi Pui Man
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...
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The Correspondent, April-June 2023: Aaron Busch and Nancy Lim
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...
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What Happened to Flight MH370? Florence de Changy on her book ‘The Disappearing Act’
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...
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Cherian George and Donald Low on Singapore’s Leadership and Prospects for Political Reform
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...
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