Decorative Banner: EJTA Teachers' Training, 19-21 May 2027, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

EJTA Teachers’ Training 19-21 May 2027: Call for active participation (Kraków – Poland)

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…

Decorative Banner: EJTA Teachers' Training, 19-21 May 2027, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

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)

The journalist as a social mediator, a creator of dialogue, and a broker of social consensus. Social and political polarization is now nearly ubiquitous throughout the Western world, describing a process that leads to the emergence of two extreme, opposing camps—an “us versus them” dynamic. The polarization of society is multidimensional. Traditional demographic indicators—such as…