The Institute for Journalism and Society is devoted to the following five inter-related domains:
The objective of the Salons is to provide opportunities for students to interact with a wide selection of people from the news industry and other sectors of the community. Over the years, accomplished journalists, media executives, politicians, senior officials, diplomats, NGO-leaders and businessmen have been invited to speak on a broad range of local and international issues.
The Institute organize different training workshops with following organizations:
"With vast amounts of data accessible online and infographic technologies available to visualize data, the news media are making greater use of numerical data in the production and distribution of news. The Data & News Society (D&N) acts as a forum for promoting collaborative data and news projects among students, scholars and professionals from diverse academic backgrounds, including journalism, computer science, statistics, visual communication, and more."
The SOPA Awards for Editorial Excellence were established in 1999 to honour outstanding works of journalism in Asia by both national and international news media published in English and Chinese. The forum aims to provide a platform for award winners from different parts of Asia to share their experiences with Hong Kong-based journalists, journalism educators and students. It is held every other year.
The Pulitzer Prize is the most respected journalism award in the world. The biennial Pulitzer Prize Winners Workshop invites four to six winners come on campus to discuss their award winning entries with journalism students and media practitioners in the Greater China region and beyond. The workshop has been suspended since 2018.