CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Journalism education for the 21st century

World Journalism Education Council in cooperation with UNESCO Journalism education for the 21st century CALL FOR PROPOSALS The World Journalism Education Council is pleased to invite expressions of interest to participate in the project “Journalism education for the 21st century.” This project responds to the vision of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication…

AJE and WJEC celebrate International Women’s Day

We are delighted to announce the inaugural AJE/WJEC International Women’s Day event on March 5, 2020 at 1.00pm. We are thrilled to be welcoming two of the best women journalists – Jane Garvey, co-founder of the Fortunately podcast and former host of BBC R4’s Woman’s Hour, and Terri White, Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, whose recent…

WJEC Declaration recognized by UNESCO

WJEC’s Paris Declaration on Freedom of Journalism Education has won traction within the UN system. On 26 November, a specialized committee of Member States at UNESCO, recognized the Declaration in an intergovernmental decision on journalism education. The Paris Declaration, which was adopted by 600 participants from more than 70 countries at the 2019 World Journalism…

Safety of journalism conference

Journalism educators are warmly invited to attend UNESCO’s Academic Conference on Safety of Journalists, taking place online on Wednesday 9 December at 16.30 CET, as part of the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 (9-10 December). (Working language: English) The Academic Conference on Safety will bring together researchers from different disciplines working on issues related to…

COVID-19: Survey of j-teachers in Canada

This is a short overview of the study on teaching journalism in the time of COVID 19. The project, conducted by Jennifer Leask from Langara Colleage and Susan Harada from Carleton University, is based on a survey of journalism educators in 42 post-secondary journalism institutions in Canada on the impacts on pedagogy and practice.

CFP: International Symposium and Special Issue

Trauma Resilience Building in Journalism Curricula: Facing Research Challenges, Ethical Considerations and Implementation of Evidence Based Practice A Call for Papers for an international symposium and a special issue proposed for Journal of Journalism Education. Jointly organised by the Lincoln School of English and Journalism and the Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies in partnership with the…

Experience of Emergency Shift to Online Teaching in Russia

Experience of Emergency Shift to Online Teaching in Russia

By Elena Vartanova Overview In the face of the need to rapidly transit to online distance learning, two main problems arose: technical competences and equipment of university teachers to transit to online learning, and psychological unavailability of teachers and students. In addition, the majority of teachers lacked the personal communication with students and colleagues and…