Alongside the roundtables, the WJEC-UNESCO project funds the publishing of two excellent handbooks. Teaching journalism online Edited by Susan Keith and Raluco Cozma This handbook is designed to help journalism instructors navigate online, remote, and hybrid teaching with whatever resources they have at hand. The handbook — containing chapters written by contributors from around the…
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Journalism education for the 21st century This year 16 roundtables across the world and two handbooks to be published The WJEC-UNESCO project is underway after confirming and contacting all successful roundtable and handbook proposals from across the globe. The project responds to the vision of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication for strengthening…
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Are you a journalism educator? If so, we would very much like to invite you to complete a short survey aiming to assess your awareness of the impact of trauma assignments on journalists and your attitudes towards embedding trauma literacy into the journalism curriculum. The survey will take about 10 mins to complete and your…
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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…
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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…
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100 years of Paulo Freire A special issue of the Brazilian journal Communication and Education on the centenary of birth of Paulo Freire.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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…
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