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 globe — will give journalism faculty members who are new to teaching online the resources they need either to create a new online course or module or to transform an existing course or module from face-to-face to online delivery. The handbook’s chapters have also been conceptualized to appeal to more-experienced online instructors looking to improve their teaching in digital spaces or overcome common problems related to teaching journalism online. The handbook aims to be a guide for journalism educators to navigate online, remote, and hybrid teaching with the resources available. From introductory to advanced courses, the edited handbook looks to overcome any shortfalls of digital learning.
Susan Keith, PhD, is an associate professor and former chair in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is president-elect of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and will serve as the organization’s president in 2021-2022 .
Raluca Cozma, PhD, is an associate professor and the associate director of graduate studies in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Before being elected chair of the AEJMC Standing Committee on Teaching in 2020, Cozma served as head of AEJMC’s Newspaper and Online Division and served as president of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication.
Reporting Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for Journalism Teachers
Edited by Maarit Jaakkola
As AI becomes more prominent throughout industries, the importance of appropriate reporting on the issues it brings is also increasing. The handbook attempts to outline computer-made actions as a journalistic challenge and provides ways of understanding, concretizing, and developing ideas around it. By introducing ideas around computer- and data-driven society as part of general news journalism rather than as part of science journalism as a specialized subgenre of journalism, the handbook seeks to propose appropriate guidelines for covering AI. It adopts an approach targeting news coverage done by generalists without any specific pre-knowledge of computer science. The handbook will include outlines of modules with class exercises, involving what students need to know about the technical, business, legal, ethical and policy debates surrounding reporting on and coverage of AI.
Maarit Jaakkola, PhD, Associate Professor, is Chair of the Nordic Collaboration Committee for Journalism Education. She is working as the Co-Director of Nordicom, a Centre for Nordic Media Research at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and as a lecturer in journalism at Tampere University in Finland. She is also an associate professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg.