Elaine Yilan Yu is currently the Master of Journalism student with HKU. Before she join the JMSC master program, she had ready worked as the public relation specialist and also worked as a news producer for 6 years in Beijing. With six years of video news producing experience with the AsiaPacific team. Elaine is independent, strategic and passionful in producing video coverage for the major news events, including 2022 Beijing Olympics, 2019 G20 Osaka Summit,
2019 DPRKUS Hanoi Summit; breaking news, including 2022 China Eastern Plane Crash , the initial outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan and Hong Kong antiextradition bill protests , as well as soft stories and features.

Apart from being a comprehensive planning producer, she is also experienced as the field producer/video journalist in the frontlines to cover the breaking news in China, especially from covering the China Eastern Plane Crash in March this year. She was the only journalist to be assigned by the agency to the frontline and responsible for the full coverage of the disaster. She navigated the on the ground promptly and found all the possible coverage accesses, including the interview with family of the victim, press conference to brief and access to the rescue site, and delivered the video packages fast.

 

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