The reporting and editing laboratories are an component of journalism education to develop students’ ability to write well, to edit well, and to produce quality print, internet broadcast items. While necessary supervision is provided, students are allowed autonomy in their involvement.
For the Chinese Journalism Concentration and the International Journalism Concentration, practice is provided by the workshops which produce San Po Yan and The Young Reporter (TYR) as well as a web news station. The newspapers are experimental publications that come out four times a semester in Chinese and English respectively. They provide students with extended and appropriately supervised experience in putting their skills and knowledge to work on a newspaper. Second-year students normally report for the newspapers, and third-year students edit and produce them. All Chinese and International Journalism students are required to take the copy editing course in the second year to prepare them for this work. A flexible tutorial programme seeks to remedy any continuing deficiencies in the use of either the Chinese or English languages if these are discerned in the news writing and editing exercises.
For Broadcast Journalism Concentration, practice is provided by Broadcast News Network (BNN), which requires the second-year and third-year students to work as reporters, editors and presenters for the news casts and to produce a number of broadcast news and current affairs programmes every semester.
Assessment is based on studentsí portfolio of their work on San Po Yan, TYR or BNN, supplemented by advisersí written records and their consultation with editors in appropriate cases.