3 May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics. Just as importantly, World Press Freedom Day is a day of support for media which are targets for the…
The Knight Center is launching free online course Journalism in a pandemic: Covering COVID-19 now and in the future. This massive open online course (MOOC) is offered simultaneously in four languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Since 2012, the Knight Centre;s program of MOOCs for journalists have already reached 200,000 students in 200 countries and territories.…
At the WJEC in Paris we got the opportunity to present the outcomes of a research project of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) called: “Journalistic Roles, Values and Qualifications in the 21st Century; How European journalism educators view the future of a profession in transition”. As you know, there is a growing body of…
Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption A GoogleDoc link with practical and adaptable advice for use across the sector. Some deep pedagogical insights and advice too. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ccsudB2vwZ_GJYoKlFzGbtnmftGcXwCIwxzf-jkkoCU/preview#heading=h.bsm2vj54ofq4 How to be a better online teacher The Chronicle of Higher Education has put together a comprehensive guide that covers essential principles and practices of better online teaching,…
To help journalists report effectively through the haze, and explain the “infodemic”, UNESCO is translating its publication “Journalism, Fake News & Disinformation” into several languages. This unique handbook (https://en.unesco.org/fightfakenews) is already in seven languages (English, French, Russian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese) with 12 more (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Khmer, Burmese, Tetum, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Albanian, Bosnian, Macedonian) in the pipeline. UNESCO is…
Extending flexible learning options to accommodate for the impact of COVID-19 can be challenging. If you are preparing for moving teaching online and looking for ideas and teaching materials bellow are some useful links. Please share! Extending flexible learning options to accommodate for the impact of COVID-19 can be challenging. If you are preparing for…
The next World Journalism Education Council meeting will be held on July 11, 2020 at the University of Tampere, Finland. The meeting will coincide with the 2020 IAMCR conference. Details closer to date.
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The 5th World Journalism Education Congress took place at the Université Paris-Dauphine | PSL, in France, from July 9th to July 11th 2019. It reunited more than 600 participants, professors, researchers, professionals, and representatives of journalism schools from 70 countries. It was the first time that the World Journalism Education Congress was organized in France.…
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