The Voices Festival is granting 25 awards of 1200 euros each to young journalists and media freedom advocates to participate in the festival’s upcoming edition. The Awards have a broad focus across eight categories, recognising outstanding achievements in various journalistic formats (Radio, Video, Digital, Cartoons and Comics, and Photojournalism) as well as in Media Literacy…
The Voices Festival is an itinerant initiative that moves across different European cities to engage with different communities, while emphasising media freedom and media literacy as essential elements for the functioning of our societies. The fourth edition of Voices will take place in Thessaloniki, from 26-28 November 2026. Over three days, the festival explores crucial…
The Norwegian government has approved funding for Bridge-Ukraine, a new project to strengthen journalism education in Ukraine. The NOK 5m (Euro 500 000) project will run over three years and is led by EJTA-member NLA Høgskolen in Kristiansand, working with five Ukrainian university journalism schools and Sweden’s Fojo Media Institute. The project aims to build…
The next EJTA Annual General Meeting and Symposium will be hosted by the Institut de Journalisme Bordeaux Aquitaine (IJBA) from 28 to 30 October 2026. Alongside the habitual EJTA’s focus group meetings on Wednesday and AGM on Thursday, the Symposium programme on Friday will feature panels and roundtables dedicated to the impact of artificial intelligence…
EJTA Teachers’ Training 2026 participants eagerly waiting for a panel session to start. (Photo credits: Darja Maskin) More than 70 delegates from over 30 journalism schools across 20 European countries gathered at University of Tartu in May 2026 for EJTA Teachers’ Training, a three-day event dedicated to exploring the theme of ‘Happiness in Journalism’. The…
The Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC), one of EJTA’s international partners within the World Journalism Education Council, organizes an International online event 21 to 23 October 2026: “Communication, Information Integrity, Social Justice and Democracy”. This event might be very interesting for PhD/Master students and teachers from EJTA Members. Registration for interested postgraduate students…
It’s a pleasure to announce that EJTA’s partner the Media Diversity Institute’s Media Diversity Research Centre has just published four reports tracking 26 years of work to make media more inclusive. 71 projects. 60+ countries. Covering ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The research is clear: media bias is not a collection of individual errors.…
This is a stimulation for your students to submit a proposal for the Voices Awards, an international competition rewarding innovative ideas and changemakers in the fields of journalism and media freedom. The Voices Awards are organised within the Voices Festival, an itinerant event co-funded by the European Union to celebrate Journalism and Media Freedom in…
What makes journalism not only a profession but a sustainable and fulfilling calling? EJTA Teachers’ Training: Beyond the Deadline – Teaching the Happiness of Journalism explores the happiness of journalism. For decades, journalism scholars have thoroughly explored what’s going wrong with the profession. We know that journalism today is defined by burnout, job insecurity, harassment,…
The EJTA board and the colleagues from Tartu University kindly invite you to participate in the Teachers’ Training on 20-22 May 2026: Beyond the Deadline: Teaching the Happiness of Journalism (Tartu – Estonia). Registration is now open on the website, please note that there are limited places available. Deadline for participation / submission for proposals…