Book your place here for the 3rd FCC Journalism Conference.
Download the PDF here: FCC Journalism Conference Programme 20180316
The Correspondent Magazine is looking for an editor
We are looking for an editor for the club’s magazine, The Correspondent.
We are confident that we will find an excellent editor from among the ranks of the club’s freelance journalists.
If you are a freelance editor with solid editorial experience then we are interested in hearing from you.
The Editor will be responsible for:
- Coming up with ideas for stories
- Commissioning freelance writers
- Producing fresh content
- Editing stories
- Sourcing images
- Liaising with the club’s social media editor
- Working with the production editor
- Managing a budget
If this is something that interests you and you have a strong editorial background please send a cover letter with your resume to [email protected] or leave it at the front desk to the attention of the Communications Committee.
Please note that beginning with the next issue the magazine will switch from being published every two months to quarterly.
The FCC Journalism Conference returns — Saturday 14 April, 2018
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From Rocket Man to the Rohingya
Saturday 14 April 2018
Save the date for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong’s third annual journalism conference. In a turbulent period for the news industry the conference will feature workshops and discussions led by panels of the region’s leading editors and reporters. Topics will include investigative reporting, women in the newsroom, fake news, challenges to press freedom, how to shoot video, get a book published, deal with traumatic assignments and avoid the pitfalls of stereotype reporting. Speakers include reporters and editors from major news organisations such as BuzzFeed, HK01, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, The New York Times, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, the Financial Times, Le Monde, Quartz and representatives from Google and Facebook. Details will be sent out along with booking forms in mid-March. |
Chinese New Year 2018 Opening Hours
Festival Season Opening Hours
Florence de Changy announced as new FCC president after Juliana Liu steps down
Florence de Changy has been elected President until the end of this term (May 2018).Dear Fellow Members,
At last Saturday’s board meeting FCC President Juliana Liu stepped down as her employment with BBC was ceasing on the same day. Her new job does not allow her to keep her “Correspondent” status, a sine qua non to be President of the Club.
The board passed a unanimous motion of thanks to Juliana Liu to acknowledge the tremendous work achieved during her time at the helm of the FCC.
As First Vice-President, in accordance with the Articles of the Club, I stepped in to chair the meeting. I was then elected President until the end of this term (May 2018). Victor Mallet (Financial Times) was elected First Vice-President. And Daniel Ten Kate (Bloomberg) was co-opted to fill the vacant Correspondent seat, as the non-elected correspondent with the highest number of votes at the last elections.
As far as I am concerned, I have been a Foreign correspondent since I left France in 1991 where I worked for Le Figaro and RFI. I currently report for the French daily Le Monde and RFI (Radio France International). I have been based in Hong Kong since 2007 after Taiwan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia.
It is a great honour and a privilege that has abruptly fallen on me. I’ll do my utmost to be up to the tasks and challenges ahead, with the help and support of all the other board members and the wonderful staff of the Club.
Best regards,
Florence de Changy
Club notice: New operating hours for Main Bar and Lounge
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Club notice: Absent and temporary members
Contact the FCC before you plan to visit. Photo: carstenschael.comVisitors to Hong Kong who wish to use the club on the basis of being (i) absent members, (ii) visiting journalists, (iii) temporary members, or (iv) reciprocal club members are strongly encouraged to contact the club’s membership office before they visit Hong Kong. They may register at the club’s front office on their arrival, although processing may be delayed depending on the workload of the day.
For more information about this registration process and the documents required, please visit the website’s FAQ’s “May overseas visitors use the FCC?” section at www.fcchk.org/faq. For more details about visiting member policies, as stipulated in the Club’s by-laws no.18, please visit www.fcchk.org/club-rules/#18
For registration, please bear in mind that the Front Office is open on weekdays from 9am to 9pm and on Saturdays from 9am to 12.30pm.
Contact the Club before you plan to visit at [email protected]; provide the Club at least three days advance notice of your arrival.
Election Result for The Board of Governors 2017-18
Club notice: Typhoon and club operations
When the Hong Kong Observatory announces that Signal No. 8 or above is hoisted, which means limited operations at the club today.
The Club will open at 12:00 noon and the ground floor and main bar will open with a limited menu and will close at midnight.
Stay safe everyone!