Professor Carol Azungi Dralega on AI, Covid and the Classroom
By Kemiso Wessie The rapid transformation of journalism in the digital age demands a re-evaluation of education, practice and ethical...
WJEC congress moved to San Francisco
By Enock Sithole The 7th World Journalism Education Congress will now be held in San Francisco, in the United States...
Rhodes University hosts an education journalism think tank
By Enock Sithole The Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies (SJMS) and the Binding Constraints Lab (BCL) have...
Norwegian funding agency criticised for budget cuts
By Enoch Sithole The African Journalism Education Network (Ajen) has joined the chorus of criticism of the recent Norpart funding...
Uptake of the Erasmus+ funding not lacking
By Enoch Sithole The Erasmus+ Networking Forum seeks to correct the impression that the uptake of the available funding was lacking....
Journalism educators and students join forces
By Enoch Sithole The Journalism Students Network of Africa (JSNA) has joined the African Journalism Education Network (Ajen). The move...
Sports journalism – ugly duckling of the journalism profession?
By Thomas Strübin Since its beginnings, sports journalism has been held in low esteem, both within editorial offices and in...
“Bro Vote”: How podcasts and alternative media helped Trump win the election
By Svetlana Greidina Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election shows how radically the political landscape in the US...
Somali Media Women Association on transforming the media landscape
By Kemiso Wessie In Somalia, where media has historically been influenced by patriarchal norms and war, the Somali Media Women...
Featured Reads in African Media and Communication Studies
Editors: Aslama Horowitz., Hannu Nieminen Katja Lehtisaari · Alessandro D’Arma This new open-access volume explores epistemic equality, highlighting its role...
University of Dar es Salaam upping the game in journalism education
By Enock Sithole Tanzania’s oldest journalism school is introducing a new curriculum following a review informed by inputs from key...
EJO @ECREA: Exchange between research, practice and students
How can closer collaboration between researchers, students and practitioners in the field of journalism strengthen the industry? The European Journalism...
When journalists venture into unknown territory
By Barnabé Fournier Journalists are regularly called upon to cover subjects that they know relatively little about. This lack of...
Media Capture: What dynamics control the media worldwide?
By Bissera Zankova & Ivo Indzhov Last year, 451 million people in 10 countries experienced a restriction of their freedom...
How the video game medium handles environmental issues
By: Andrea Hubert Games are a medium like any other. Climate scenarios in films and literature are increasingly appearing. How...
Reporters in Goma: between journalistic ethics and survival
By Innocent Buchu In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, journalists face precarious working conditions that affect their...
Europe´s newspapers don´t report enough about the oceans
By Yvonne Blaschke Water is essential for life, and the world’s oceans are currently facing various challenges. Nevertheless, in many...
TU Dortmund University organises e-learning summit in Malawi: Digital offensive with universities in Africa
Last week, the Institute of Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund held a major e-learning conference in Malawi. The...
Book review: New perspectives on cross-border journalism
By Susanne Fengler Liane Rothenberger, Martin Löffelholz and David H. Weaver recently published a weighty volume on cross-border journalism (CBJ)...
Being a journalist in Uganda-reporting despite insecurity
by Nina Feldman, Paula Genius & Zoe Gleisberg May 2024 – Journalists in the Masaka region of Uganda report on...