Shuk-Wah Chung is an Australian freelance radio/print journalist currently living in Beijing, China.
Her radio stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio4, Monocle 24 (international, HQ London), Asia Calling (Indonesia), Free Speech Radio News (USA); and her writing has appeared in The Age (Australia), DNA (Australia), Global Times (China) and other local and international publications/stations.
In China she has covered topics ranging from internet censorship, environment, subculture, and stories reflecting present and future trends in the world’s largest growing economy.
In 2009 she was one of five journalists selected to cover the 6th UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris; and in 2010 covered the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria.
Her media career has been diverse, having worked as a technical operator/producer for the Australian community radio network; an audio/radio trainer for migrant communities in Australia; project manager for a youth radio broadcast; and International Communications Officer at WWF-China. She is currently a board member of the Asia-Europe Committee of Journalists, an organisation that sets up media projects to increase understanding between the two continents.
She believes in media for its ability to give people a voice and for the wonderful, strange and exciting opportunities it brings.