Trauma Literacy in Global Journalism: Toward an Education Agenda Guest Editors: Ola Ogunyemi (University of Lincoln, UK) & Lada Price (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Journalism and Mass Communication Educator is seeking empirically grounded and theoretically focused research papers for publication in a special issue on a new pathway to an educational agenda in response to…
A new English language journal, Online Media and Global Communication (OMGC), is soliciting manuscript submissions for a themed issue on Misinformation and global communication. Online Media and Global Communication is a free open access journal published quarterly by De Gruyter and sponsored by Shanghai International Studies University, China, the host of the 2023WJEC. Edited by…
We are pleased to announce a keynote speaker for the upcoming WJEC online conference (June 30, 2022): Professor Daniela Dimitrova will give a talk on Global Media Systems in the Age of Change Daniela V. Dimitrova (Ph.D., University of Florida) is a Professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University…
The Steering Committee of the World Journalism Education Council strongly condemns the violent invasion of Ukraine. We express our solidarity with the citizens of Ukraine, and particularly with Ukrainian journalists, journalism educators and journalism students, who now find themselves in the middle of a devastating war. We call on the international community to support, in…
The European Journalism Training Association strongly condemns the Russian aggression to Ukraine. In the statement issued yesterday EJTA says: The board and the director of EJTA would like to express their sympathy and solidarity to our Ukrainian colleagues, from the consortium of the Ukranian schools which recently joined EJTA after the DESTIN project and from the Institute…
Conference on safety of journalists 2-4 May 2022, Uruguay Attacks on journalists are as diversified and complex as never before: while 2021 saw the lowest number in killings of journalists in over a decade, online and offline attempts to silence critical investigations plague journalists around the world. UNESCO and a network of Uruguayan universities will…
Reimagining Journalism Education in the Age of Change June 30, 2022 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. U.S. Central Time The 2022 WJEC online conference will focus on reimagining journalism curriculum, the future of j-education and the challenges it currently faces. Journalism pedagogy has been a central theme in the WJEC gatherings since the first congress…
The direction of journalism and journalism education is changing, so where is it heading? This is the subject of a roundtable hosted by the Asian Media Information and Communication Center, Inc (AMIC) on the 14th of December 1500 (Singapore Standard Time). The virtual event welcomes top journalism educators from across Asia, discussing the future of…
As part of a WJEC/UNESCO project, the Department of Sociology at Utkal University will host two roundtable sessions considering quality journalism education in Eastern India on the 1st of December. The partially online event will bring together academics and media professionals to discuss the roles of ethics and social justice in the media sphere and…
Réseau Théophraste is hosting an online roundtable discussion on the 24th of November, covering how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted and transformed teaching in journalism schools across all regions of the Francophonie differently. This round table will present how the various journalism training programs have adapted to the situation. It will dentify the main difficulties and the…