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Entrepreneurial Journalism Expert: Dan Gillmor Chair: Remzi Lani
Social Media, Citizen Journalism & Media Curators – Implications for Journalism Education Expert: Mindy McAdams Chair: Julie Posetti
Diversity in Journalism Education Expert: Anthea Garman Chair: Ibrahim Saleh
Media Training, Journalism Education and Gender Equality Expert: Kubi Rama Chair: Jaco du Toit
Journalism Research and Journalism Education: Setting an International Agenda Expert: Herman Wasserman Chair: Arnold S. de Beer
Sports Journalism Expert: Wayne Wanta Chair: Erna Smith
Democracy and Media Innovations in Africa Expert: Ruth Teer-Tomaselli Chair: Zvenyika Mugari
Teaching Media Literacy Expert: Stephen Salyer Chair: Beate Josephi
Teaching Mobile Journalism Expert: Stephen Quinn Chair: Anna McKane
Teaching Climate Change in Journalism Classrooms Expert: Robert Bryan o’Donoghue Chair: Linn Washington
Blogging/Reflective Writing as Teaching Methods Expert: Jonathan Hewett Chair: Roland Stanbridge (Additional handout document )
Journalism Ethics Expert: Kwame Karikari
The Ultimate Journalism Education Expert: Michael Bromley Chair: Sonia Virginia Moreira
Optimizing Cooperation in University-based vs. Industry-based Journalism Education Expert: Paddi Clay Chair: Karen Dunlap
Chinese-language Syndicate Expert: Guo Ke Chair: Zhang Xiaoying
French-language Syndicate Expert: Eugene Aw-ndiaye Chair: Marie-Soleil Frere (en Francais )
Heads of J-schools report : Paul Parsons
Good Journalism Research Makes for Good Journalism Education – Steffen Burkhardt & Siegfried Weischenberg
Chequebook Journalism: A South African Picture – Susan Stos
Mass Media and Civil Society Organizations: Strengthening Alliances for the Benefit of Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America – Catalina Montoya
Evolution growth and development of media pluralism: an assessment of policies, legislations and regulatory framework in Ghana – Manso Frempong
Becoming ‘trauma literate’s – a practical training programme for educators – Cait McMahon (read by Julie Posetti)
The Philosophical Exploration of Journalism Education Based on Academic Diversity – Ding Junjie
Global Journalism 2.0 – Herman Wasserman
Diversity syndicate –
Football, Politics and the Nation in Spanish Football – Jim O’sBrian
Francais syndicate – Teaching entrepreneurial journalism
Socialmedia final –
How journalism ethics evolve among undergraduate students – Benjamin H Detenber
Chinese-speaking syndicate – Syndicate group report WJEC
30 years after NWICO: Assessing the structure of global news flows through a comparative analysis of the coverage of the 2008 United States and Ghanaian Presidential elections by the Nigerian media – Ralph A. Akinfeleye, Innocent E. Okoye Ifeoma T. Amobi & Oloruntola Sunday
Journalism Education Curricula Models: An Analysis of CTT of Four Programmes in Nigerian Universities – Muyiwa Popoola
Mass Media and Health In Jamaica: Whose Agenda? – Melany Chambers
Teaching the future: A case study in preparing journalism students to work in a new (and multiple) media future – Indra de Lanerolle & Anton Harber
Paradigm Shift of Journalism Education at University Level in South Asia: In search of a new adaptive model – Mohammad Sahid Ullah
Towards a language policy for journalistic writing in Africa – Modestus Fosu
Loosening the Shackles of the Truth Defence on Freedom of Speech: Making Defamation Law’ss Truth Defence More User Friendly for Media Defendants – Joseph M Fernandez
Professionalisation as control: radical choices for journalism education – Cherian George
From mass communication to citizen journalism: New perspectives in contemporary communications – Etim Anim
Sports syndicate – Sports journalism syndicate at WJEC
Different strokes: Asian journalists’s online learning strategies – Violet B Valdez & Mercedes T. Rodrigo
Perceptions of the news media’ss societal roles: how the views of United Kingdom journalism students changed during their education – Mark Hanna & Karen Sanders
Bridging the gap: How media houses and higher learning institutions can learn from and with each other. Reflecting on the importance of (academic) journalism education for the development of professional journalism in young democracies – Swenja Kopp
How U.S. Public Relations Education Leads the World, and Why That’ss Still Not Good Enough – Dane Claussen
HIGHWAY AFRICA TRAINING PANEL Norms and hazards of sports journalism – Thomas Horky
Diversity syndicate –
Developing Organizational Ethics Codes in Media Outlets – Yulia Medvedeva(Read by Dane S. Claussen)
The Emergence of Electronic Journals in Communication: A Comparison of Highly Cited Journals in Five Disciplines – Jody Bales Foote & Joe Foote
The Buck Stops with the Labour Market? An Exploratory Study of Zimbabwean Editors’s and Educators’s Perceptions on the Performance of Journalism Graduates from Polytechnics and Universities – Admire Mare
Internships as an Assessment Tool In a U.S. Journalism and Mass Communication Program – Lillian Williams
Why Journalists Don’st Work In The Village: The Rural Challenge to Nigerian Journalism – Victor Ayedun-Aluma
Social syndicate – Social media
Correcting Images – Development Communication in German Journalism Education. A “best practice†example – Markus Behmer
“The Mother of All Deadlinesâ€: A Discourse Analysis of News of Treaties on Global Warming in China, India and the US. – Elizabeth Burch, presented by Robyn S Goodman
Twenty years of Journalism education in the Southern African development region (SADC): A comparative review study, 1989 – 2009 – Bhekimpilo Sibanda
Africanising journalism curricula: perceptions of African journalism scholars – Bevelyn Dube
Wan-ifra supports WJEC – WAn-Ifra supports journalism educators collaborating projects on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day.
October colloquium – Concept and draft programme for Colloquium at Rhodes University, convened by School of Journalism and Media Studies
Twitterising Journalism and J-Ed: An Australian Political Reporting Case Study – Julie Posetti
InsightsGoodman – Article by Robyn Goodman on the lessons of WJEC 2010
Blogging document –
The World Cup in South Africa 2010: how media construct and represent identity in a global event – Karin Becker, Robert Kautsky & Andreas Widholm
The new global j-school: issues arising from the internationalisation and monetisation of journalism education – Megan Knight & Caroline Hawtin
Re-conceptualizing Journalism Education and Media Studies in Africa – Winston Mano
The BTech Research Module for Journalism: Developing Research Capacity Through Blended Learning that Includes a Podcasting Component – Mikhail Peppas
We are all, or should be, subjective journalists now: new challenges for Journalism Educators – Ivor Gabor
New Generation, New media and Digital Divide: Assessing the digital divide through ownership, literacy, access and usage of Social media by young people in Nigeria – Ifeoma Amobi
HELP WANTED: An examination of new media skills required by top US news companies – Deb Halpern Wenger, Lynn C. Owens & Kristine Trever
Impact of Journalism Training on Editorials and News Values in Cameroon – Manka E. Tabuwe & Enoh Tanjong
Applying the “Manifesto for Change†to Journalism Education – Geneva Overholser
Proliferation of journalism schools in Nigeria – Francis Amenaghawon
The future of the printed newspaper in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe –
The role of the newsroom in the educational environment – a case study in experiential learning – Kathy Hilton
E-learning as an alternative to physical expansion? Exploring the internet’ss potential as a platform for teaching Broadcast Journalism in a developing world context – Kobina Ano Bedu-Addo
The Rwanda Initiative: The dynamics of a North-South media project and its prospects for building capacity, cooperation and community – Kanina Holmes
Mojo – mobile journalism – Stephen Quinn
Colloquium statement – Conclusion of colloquium 16-17 October, Rhodes University, on SA media since 1994.
Media power and journalistic autonomy: Using Bourdieu’ss field theory to better understand questions of power and agency in journalism – Anthea Garman
Students’s perceptions and use of the Internet as a news channel – Levi Obijiofor & Folker Hanusch
SAStatement – 19 SA journalism schools joined forces to express concern over the media appeals tribunal proposal of the ANC, and the protection of information bill. The statement was published in three Sunday papers.
Why Brazilian (Photo)Journalists Do What They Do: A Peek Into How They Cover Race and Class Issues – Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno
Community video enhancing community participation and development: a case study of the community video model of Drishti, India – Debarun Dutta
Dynamics of Elite Power and the clash of media reform agendas in contemporary Zimbabwe – Zvenyika Eckson Mugari
Why newsrooms should retain their senior journalists: mentoring through Legitimate Peripheral Participation – Marc Caldwell
Socialmedia final –
Social Media as Alternative to Public Service Media’s Failure – Laeed Zaghlami
‘Taking a ‘Leap’s: Exploring student learning and identity formation on a praxis-based journalism course – Rod Amner
UNESCO supports WJEC – UNESCO document supporting World Press Freedom Day 2011 and WJEC activities
The freedom to fail: Addressing unequal opportunities and performance in South African journalism education and training – Gabriel Botma
Knowledge Gaps?: Comparing the Skills training Component of Curriculum in Broadcast Journalism Schools- Ghana and the World – Kobina Ano Bedu-Addo
Legacy media and social media nexus: Ethical considerations for South African newsrooms and journalism schools – Ayesha Mall
Transformation of journalism education: Posttotalitarian (re)construction of journalism education in 1990s in the Czech Republic – Jan Jirák
Jihad Sheilas or Media Martyrs? Muslim Women and the Australian Media – Julie Posetti
Journalism Education and Social Integration – Steffen Burkhardt & Siegfried Weischenberg
Democracy at stake: Media Coverage Parliamentarian Elections in Rwanda (September 15th 2008) – Dominique Nduhra
Snap and crackle goes pop: a case study of the provision of mobile, digital, shortwave and FM news and current affairs broadcast and published by Radio Australia in 2009 – Alexandra Wake
University-based journalism education as a site of engagement with social transformation – Jeanne du Toit
Chinese Journalism Education under Market and System Pressure: A Case Study of School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing Normal University – Zhang Ning & Li Jie
Media Education and construction of a public citizen space in Morocco – Abdellatif Bensfia
InsightsFoote – Joe Foote assesses the significance of WJEC 2010
Twitter as a news source programme – Peter Verweij
Challenging the journalistic habitus? Journalism students’s media use and attitudes towards mainstream and alternative media – Grigoris Paschalidis & Dimitra L. Milioni
Letter – Letter from WJEC convenor Joe Foote to President Jacob Zuma
Optimising cooperation –
The legitimacy of press mediators in France – Marc-Frencois Bernier
Teaching journalism in a proliferated system: the state of journalism education in Nigeria – Oyewo Oyeyinka Olusola
Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First Person Experience of News – Nonny de la Peña
Social organising of African journalism educators – Guy Berger
Eliminating Barriers to Cross-Cultural Communication through Curricular Interventions – David Dankwa-Apawu
Out of the mouths of babes – entry-level journalists and their perception of the challenges for (South] African) journalism education and the newsroom – Lizette Rabe
Opportunities and Challenges: The Changing Face of Journalism Education in the People’ss Republic of China – Bao-jun Xia
J&MC – Article contextualising WJEC 2010 in an overview of global organising of journalism educators
Loosening the Shackles of the Truth Defence on Freedom of Speech: Making Defamation Law’ss Truth Defence More User Friendly for Media Defendants – Joseph M Fernandez
Report FINAL – Final Report on WJEC 2010
State versus self-regulation in Uganda: a unique challenge for journalism practice – Adolf Mbaine
Broadening Horizons: A Case Study of a Training Newspaper at the University of Botswana – Wanja Njuguna
WJEC2010 Curriculum Panel Proceedings –
Teaching Journalistic, Strategic and Dialogic Communication to Address Social Justice Issues – Jyotika Ramaprasad
New Media: Connecting or Alienating the Nigerian Youths – Steven Anu’s Adesemoye
Postgraduate Journalists: Rediscovering Discourse and Identity – Nicola Jones & Sandra Pitcher
Critical to the core: shifting the paradigm to a professional praxis model in an introductory journalism reporting and writing course – Maija Saari
Seeing beyond the slumdogs: representations of poverty in Western Media – Peter Lee-Wright
Reinvention Strategies: Digital Storytelling, Media Convergence and the New University Journalism Curriculum – Joe Murray
Bridging the Gap for Educators: Uniting Scholarship and Commentary about Journalism and Trauma – Elana Newman & Summer Nelson (read by Elanie Steyn)
Monitoring journalism training programs in sub-Saharan Africa – Anya Schiffrin & Michael Behrman
Situating language in the center of journalism training: the case for broadening the spheres of English teaching and learning in journalism training institutions in Ghana – Modestus Fosu
Citizen journalism in Grahamstown: reflecting a Habermasian or Bakhtinian voice? – Larry Strelitz & Lynette Steenveld
E-Learning in Journalism Education – Experiences of Students of the GIJ – Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng
The Long Tail evident in journalism employment opportunities, but students unaware – J. Cokley, M. Edstrom, J. McBride & A. Ranke
Developing relevant Journalism curricula in changing times: experiences from East Africa – Monica Chibita
Putting pop into the classroom: Journalism Idol as an academic exercise and glimpse into the future of media – Kanina Holmes
Peace Journalism as a Media Education Paradigm for Africa – Levi Obonyo & Mark Fackler
Entrepreneurial syndicate –
Teaching global issues in journalism education in an age of radical change – Roy Krøvel
The European Competence Profile Project – Nico Drok
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