Giang

"I spent two years studying part-time for this MA, sharing my time between the courses at Goldsmiths and duties at the BBC World Service in Central London, including a number of reporting trips to East Asia. It was not easy to combine the two tasks but somehow they were very complementary. I enriched my journalism at work by embracing the global outlook offered by the College and by networking with fellow students from Asia (China, South Korea, Taiwan), continental Europe (Greece, Poland, Germany) as well as from the Arab world (Lebanon, Egypt). But above and beyond, the student life at Goldsmiths, all the fun and lively conversations on the campus will remain with me forever. 

On leaving Goldsmiths I went on to get a fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and completed a research project about social media and its impact on political trends in Vietnam. I could not have done that without the time spent at Goldsmiths. 

I have also moved on to become Editor for East Asia Hub at the World Service. I'm editorially in charge of the Chinese, Vietnamese and Indonesian outputs for the BBC, and three overseas bureaux in Southeast Asia. 

The global perspective and skills learnt at Goldsmiths have not just broadened my viewpoints as a senior editor but also refreshed my understanding of the world, and that helped me to reshape the BBC coverage of East Asian stories and topics in my area of responsibilities."