Jie-Ping Zhang（張潔平）
Course: Seminar on Journalism of Greater China Region
Zhang Jieping is founder of Matters.new, the decentralized media platform launched in 2019. Before that, she was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the Initium Media, an online Chinese-language publication established in Hong Kong in 2015. Under her leadership, the publication has won 40 regional journalism awards in 3 years. She previously worked as an editor at City Magazine and was the Executive Editor of iSun Affairs, a trailblazing online magazine also based in Hong Kong. She reported on politics, urbanization, and the growth of civil society for Hong Kong’s Yazhou Zhoukan (Asiaweek).
She also served as university lecturer of journalism in University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University from 2018 till now. Between 2007 and 2011, she received awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) for Excellence in Investigative Reporting, Excellence in Human Rights Reporting, and Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. In 2010, SOPA named her Journalist of the Year. In 2011, she received the CKS Award for Aspiring Young Communicators.
Zhang holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of Hong Kong.