2025 Congress in Perth
As the official WJEC website is undergoing a major design update, you will be directed to the 2025 World Journalism and Education Congress website. Please use the following link: https://www.wjec2025.com
Margaret Hughes, new WJEC Chair
Huge congratulations to Margaret Hughes, who has been elected as the new Chair of the World Journalism Education Council! Margaret served as the Chair of AJE (UK) from 2016 to 2023. During her tenure, she successfully established AJE’s reputation within the UK and internationally, solidifying its position as a vital platform for journalism educators to…
High recognition for WJEC vice chair
In a world where much journalism education goes unrecognised, WJEC vice chair Nico Drok is a well-deserved exception. This stalwart, and host of the third edition of the World Journalism Education Congress, has received the prestigious title of “Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau”, for his more than 40-year career in promoting journalism education…
WJEC book project with UNESCO culminates at IAMCR conference, Lyon, France
Book launches and free hard copies were part of a WJEC panel held at the annual congress of the International Association for Communications and Media Research (IAMCR), held in France in early July. This was in the context of a lively panel discussion titled “Teaching journalism today”, convened at the start of the IAMCR congress…
WJEC Book Launch at IAMCR Lyon
Three new WJEC publications will be presented at a special session “Teaching journalism today”, on Monday July 10, at IAMCR conference in Lyon. ‘Journalistic Roles, Values and Qualifications in the Network Era’ by Nico Drok and Rolien Duiven, describes the views of journalism educators around the globe on the future of journalism including interesting similarities…
Digital media and broadcast creative competition
We are proud to announce that WJEC and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) are working in partnership to produce BEA’s Festival of Media Arts. The Festival is BEA’s international digital media and broadcast creative competition for faculty and students. Each year the Festival receives over 1,600 entries from more than 300 participating schools from around…
2023 WJEC cancelled
The World Journalism Education Council decided to cancel the 2023WJEC because of the lack of global outlook in the submissions and the travel restrictions The call for papers for the 2023 Congress closed on October 15. In the event, we received 393 abstracts, but 85 percent were submitted by journalism educators from China. This…
2022 WJEC Recommendations for improving journalism education
The WJEC 2022 Online Conference summary (stream) reports, highlighting recommendations for improving journalism education worldwide, have been published. These 12 reports, inspired by WJEC’s syndicate program, originated from expert report-backed, live-streamed discussion groups. More than 100 journalism educators and professionals from across the globe took part in hot topic journalism education-themed discussions, focused on the following:…
Australia to host 2025 World Journalism Education Congress
The 7th World Journalism Education Congress will be held from July 1-3, 2025, in Perth, Western Australia. Hosted by Edith Cowan University, it will address the overall theme of “Journalism in post normal times”. The congress will follow the format of all previous congresses offering a range of panel sessions, syndicates, paper presentations, workshops and students…
ERUM Multiplier Event in Vienna on the 28th of April
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