Journalism education is currently facing unprecedented upheavals. After having constantly adapted the curricula since the ‘90s to meet the media industry’s demands, journalism schools now have to face a double challenge; both new expectations of journalism students concerning what should be taught in a journalism school, as well as the actual academic teaching methods themselves.
These major foreseeable evolutions illustrate that journalism schools could well be on the verge of radically changing the way they teach journalism.
Digitalization of contents will either lead to a deeper digital divide between journalism schools of different locations and different continents or, conversely, to a historical opportunity to pool the best education practices worldwide.
How to renew journalism education
Best innovative practices in journalism education
Training journalism students in an age of conflicts
Teaching journalism ethics in a digital age
Blended learning, hybrid learning, flipped classrooms, what are the consequences for journalism education?
Internships and circulation of knowledge: who is learning from whom?
Lifelong learning in journalism education
Training for trainers: how to integrate the professional journalist as a teacher in a classroom
21st century ethical Issues in journalism education
Research trends in journalism
Developing inclusive journalism curricula
Teaching fact-checking and verification in a post-truth era
And more to come…
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Singapore, 2007
Grahamstown, South Africa, 2010
Mechelen, Belgium, 2013
Auckland, New-Zealand, 2016
The World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) is a coalition representing academic associations worldwide that are involved in journalism and mass communication at the university level. By bringing organizations from six continents together, the Council hopes to provide a common space for journalism educators from around the world and to focus on issues that are universal in the field.
It is an outgrowth of the first World Journalism Education Congress that was held in Singapore in June 2007 and drew 450 delegates from 45 countries. The WJEC is an informal group with no secretariat. The World Journalism Education Council began as the planning group for the Congress, beginning with its first meeting in Toronto in 2004.
The Council’s major projects have been the adoption of a Declaration of Universal Principles of Journalism Education (approved June 2007) and the World Journalism Education Census.
> More information about the World Journalism Education Council : https://wjec.net
