Yuen-Ying Chan is journalism professor and founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong. She is also the founding dean of the journalism school at Shantou University, China, where she promotes the teaching of fact-based journalism. Prior to joining HKU in 1998, she spent 23 years working as a journalist in New York City. From 1990 to 1997, she worked for the New York Daily News, where she won a Polk Award for reporting on the human-smuggling trade from China. Chan was one of the first journalists to investigate campaign finance links between Asia and the Clinton re-election campaign. Her reporting for Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly ), an international Chinese-language weekly, triggered a lawsuit by a senior official of Taiwan's ruling party. For her battle against the criminal-libel suit, she was awarded a 1997 International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Chan was a 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She has been a member of the board of the Peabody Awards for electronic media since 2003.