Call for active participation!
We invite lecturers, researchers, and practitioners to reflect on how journalism—rather than reinforcing polarization—might instead help reduce it. How can a journalist become a mediator in social dialogue, rather than a focal point for deepening divisions? We invite EJTA journalism educators and researchers to submit papers, presentations, workshops, and best practices that focus on:
- Identity journalism – an ideal or a denial of the idea of journalism?
- Media pluralism – what is needed for the media to be pluralistic?
- Information in a bipolar media landscape – the roles and functions of the media in a polarized society
- Bridge builder or obnoxious symmetrist – how to be a journalist in a polarized society?
- Conscious confrontation with the other bubble – a research workshop as a teaching tool in journalist education
- The substituted OTHER – a discussion on the limitations of attitudes as a teaching tool in journalist education
- Identity journalism, service journalism (“waiter journalism”) – the evolution of journalism in a polarized media landscape and its consequences for us
- Who to believe in a polarized world? – credibility and trust in the media in a polarized society
Send your proposal and give a short description (one paragraph) to Agnieszka Szymańska agnieszka.szymanska@uj.edu.pl and to Nadia Vissers director@ejta.eu BEFORE 20 April 2027.
Can’t wait to see you in Krakow!
More information:
EJTA Teachers’ Training 19-21 May 2027: Journalism in a bipolar world—how to teach in an era of deep political and social polarization? (Kraków – Poland)
Agnieszka Szymańska agnieszka.szymanska@uj.edu.pl /
Nadia Vissers director@ejta.eu /
Henna Turunen info@ejta.eu
