Varsity at 25

Rachel Cheung is a reporter at the South China Morning Post. She was the Chief Editor of the Fall 2014 board and played a major role in coordinating Varsity's coverage of first the class boycott and then the Umbrella Movement.

Samuel Chan, Editor-in-Chief of the 2011 Fall Board, worked as a reporter in Hong Kong before moving to Taiwan where he's now a correspondent for Dealreporter.

In 1991, Bryce McIntyre left rural Oregon in the United States for a job at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was tasked with setting up an English language news practicum. Here, he tells us how his original idea for a student-produced English tabloid newspaper, published four days a week, was rejected and how Varsity magazine was born instead.

Choosing Varsity and improving her English has brought unexpected benefits for senior financial reporter Piano Ho who was a managing editor of the 2011 Spring Board.

For 25 years, we have been trying to tell Hong Kong stories that matter. Here is what some of our readers and fellow storytellers...

Christine Fung, art director of the 2010 Fall Board, is now a Nike brand manager in Shanghai. She shows us around her sleek office...but something is missing.

Rene, art director of the 2013 Spring Board, is now a filmmaker and he recalls how working as a reporter for Varsity helped prepare him for telling human stories, something that he is doing now as a filmmaker.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Varsity, which was launched as the English language practicum magazine of CUHK’s School of Journalism and Communication. We...

Macau Mak was Editor-in-Chief of the 2015 Spring Board. He's currently working as an Executive Officer for the HKSAR government (but is secretly training to be a martial arts superhero - ed.)

Cindy Gu was an editor in the 2016 Fall Board. Her reporting for Varsity led to an interest in gender issues and she is now for an M.Phil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.