State & Media Nexus in 21st Century

Inviting Ming Chuan University students to join us for a lecture on “State & Media Nexus in 21st Century” with Ming Chuan University’s Journalism and Mass Communication Program, New’s Literacy course.

• Theme: Media Freedom and Censorship in a Global Context: From Prague to Hanoi
• Segment 1: Media Freedom and Public Service Media in Europe – Democratic contexts
• Segment 2: Media Censorship in Asia – Authoritarian contexts

Speakers:

Martin Štefek, Ph., Head of Political Science Department of the Charles University and Deputy Director at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Martin Štefek received his PhD. in 2017 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Czech Republic. He has been an assistant professor at the Department of the Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Charles University since 2016. In 2022, he joined The Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences. His teaching and research focus on comparative politics and contemporary history. His fields of interest include party systems, regime transformations, the history of Communism and theories of totalitarianism.

Trịnh Hữu Long, Interim Executive Director of Legal Initiatives for Vietnam and Editor-in-Chief of Luat Khoa Magazine
Trịnh Hữu Long is the Co-founder and Interim Executive Director of Legal Initiatives for Vietnam, based in Taipei, Taiwan. He is in charge of Luật Khoa Magazine, a Vietnamese publication covering Vietnam’s law and politics. He began his career in 2008 as a legal counsel for some companies in Hà Nội and became a democracy advocate and journalist in 2011. He has worked for various media and human rights organizations such as Tia Sáng magazine (2011-2012), Tuổi Trẻ newspaper (2012), and VOICE (2013-2016). He has a background in law and Asia-Pacific studies, specializing in Vietnam’s constitutional law, freedom of expression, internet freedom, and criminal justice, as well as Taiwan’s democratization. He has written and translated several books in politics and has been an author of the Vietnam Chapter of Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net reports since 2021. He earned a bachelor in law (LL.B) from Hanoi Law University in 2008 and a master’s degree in Asia-Pacific studies from Taiwan’s National Chengchi University in 2024.

• Date Friday Nov 14, 2025
• Time: 2:00  – 3:30 pm
• Location: Ming Chuan University
• Audience: Open to Ming Chuan University students only