After being thrown out of China in 2012, spending some time in Jerusalem, Doha, London and finally settling in Berlin, reporter and writer Melissa Chan virtually came to an online class for second-year journalism students at Conestoga College.
In what turned out to be an almost two-hour Q and A session, Chan confronted students with realities in China, trade secrets of the media business and truths about what waits for them once they graduate. Some of those truths were not so comfortable.