Cheng Jim-ming (鄭貞銘/file photo)

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/19
By: Hsiao Po-wen and Joseph Yeh

Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) Acclaimed journalism professor Cheng Jim-ming (鄭貞銘) passed away Monday in Taipei at the age of 82, media personality Jeffrey Ko (葛樹人) said.

Cheng died at Central Clinic and Hospital in Taipei at 4:56 p.m. Monday. He was admitted to the hospital on Feb. 14 with kidney failure, according to Ko.

The famous journalism professor was born in 1936. Known to many as the “Godfather of Taiwan journalism,” Cheng spent most of the past five decades teaching generations of students.

A graduate of National Chengchi University’s Graduate Institute of Journalism, Cheng became the first department chair of Chinese Culture University’s Department of Journalism a year after it was founded in 1963 at the age of 28.    [FULL  STORY]