1 June 2023 – A year ago, some of you attended a workshop on a research project about audience metrics, conducted by Artevelde University of Applied Sciences (UAS), during the EJTA Conference in Aarhus. Artevelde UAS is working on an educational tool to broaden journalists’ knowledge on audience metrics (pageviews, time on page, and scroll…
Under the coordination of The Institute of Journalism in Dortmund, EJTA is cooperating in the creation of an online course on EU cohesion policy. The project is funded by the European Commission with one million euros and is entitled “Covering Cohesion Policy in Europe – Training MOOC for European Journalism Students” (COPE). All universities that…
The ERUM learning modules are now accessible as Open Educational Resource via https://erum.uni-foundation.eu/ These modules focus on issues related to mis- and disinformation and allow for an integration into diverse fields of study – journalism included. The learning modules address controversially discussed topics that are prone to false information (such as migration, 5G or global…
1 December 2021 – At the online Annual General Meeting (December 9th, 2021) EJTA’s members unanimously accepted the membership of the Ukrainian Forum for Educators in Media and Journalism (UFEMJ). UFEMJ is a consortium of ten Ukrainian universities that have a journalism department. This consortium has recently been established in the context of the Erasmus+…
8 December 2020 – Over 100 fact-checks, and counting, are available on the EUfactcheck.eu website.This EJTA-project kicked off in 2016 to supports journalism education all over Europe and aims to foster fact-based public debate. Over 33 journalism schools from 24 countries are involved in the EUfactcheck project and regularly publish their student production on the…
Three EJTA member universities, The Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX), Hochschule der Medien (HdM) and Windesheim University have come together for an EU Erasmus+ funded project, because they share an understanding of the current difficult state of journalism and ideas on how to improve the situation. DIALOGUE is designated to develop curricula for…
In the framework of the Erasmus+ programme “Newsreel – New skills for the next generation of journalists” the Erich Brost Institute for international journalism (EBI) has developed a seminar to teach journalism students of TU Dortmund cross-border collaborative journalism. As we are currently in the process of writing a chapter about our experiences – together…
1 October 2019 – For the 2020 edition, the Evens Foundation is looking for inspiration and new ideas to foster the motivation and abilities to think critically about social questions. The call is open to a broad variety of practices implemented in institutional and non-institutional spaces by teachers, scholars, students, educators, youth workers, artists, civil…
After the success of the students’ publications on the European Parliamentary elections, the participants of EJTA’s fact-checking project EUfactcheck decided to move on with the project and to take new steps in the academic year 2019-2020. By December 2019 a manual with guidelines and tips & tricks will be published and in February 2020 a…
1 September 2019 – At the AGM in Paris on 8 July 2019 the EJTA members decided to start a 3-year pilot to strengthen the managerial potential of EJTA through appointing an EJTA Director for two days a week. The Director will take care of all operational tasks (in close collaboration with the EJTA Secretariat),…