Judith Clarke
Associate Professor
Journalism
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
After ten years with Asiaweek magazine, mostly based in Hong Kong but including a two-year posting in Bangkok as Indochina correspondent, Dr. Clarke joined HKBU in 1990. She has a degree in Russian Studies and Sociology from Birmingham University in England and an MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hong Kong, as well as a PhD in history, also from Hong Kong U. Her thesis examined the political influences on international media coverage of the conflict in Cambodia in the 1980s. She maintains her research interest in Cambodia and other areas of Southeast Asia. She also teaches international and comparative news as well as professional journalism subjects. She has led ten postgraduate study tours to Cambodia, and taken undergraduate groups to Myanmar, London and Brisbane.
Research Interest
Media in Southeast Asia, Entrepreneurial journalism
Publications
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Zhang J, Clarke J (2008) Blogging in China: a force for social change. Australian Journalism Review 30: 3-12.
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Clarke J (2010) Cambodia: educating journalists in a world of poverty, corruption and power abuse. In B. Josephi (Ed.). Journalism education in a challenging environment. Peter Lang Publishers pp: 53-70.
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Clarke J (2015) Publish or die? The academic journalist must be an academic. Asia Pacific Media Educator 25: 1-5.
