Mr. Dean C.K. Cox
Photographer, Media Consultant and former Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Mr. Cox taught journalism and communications courses to graduate and undergraduate students at Hong Kong Baptist University for more than 10 years before departing in September 2023 to return to his career as an independent photographer, journalism lecturer and media consultant. Previously, he worked more than 25 years for various international news media organizations, including The New York Times, Associated Press, CBS News, EurasiaNet, Bloomberg, and many others, reporting in more than 40 countries, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Cox has guest lectured on multimedia journalism, online and digital journalism, new media, photojournalism, and documentary photography at universities in USA, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Central Asia. He was awarded a Knight International Press Fellowship (’02) and an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship (’99). In 2003 he co-authored two Freedom House reports on the state of the Ukrainian news media during the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, and in 2012 he presented a paper titled "Multiculturalism and New Media: Empowering Indigenous, Ethnic, and Minority, Communities with the Skills and Tools To Report Their Own Stories" at a conference on the roles of media and culture at Al Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has shown his photographic work at more than a dozen solo and group shows in Sweden, Romania, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA, and South Korea.
