EJTA Mission on Media Literacy: Strengthening Digital Citizenship and Democracy through Media Education and Quality Journalism

Publications

Media literacy is essential for navigating the rapid spread of disinformation, in today’s digital world. The ability to access, analyze, and create media content fosters critical thinking, empowering individuals to become active, informed digital citizens. Media literacy is also crucial for distinguishing between quality journalism that has been going through a dynamic digital transformation (generally…

21-23 May 2025: EJTA Teachers’ Training: call for active participation (only for EJTA members!) (Rome, Italy)

Events

Environmental Journalism is a significant, stimulating and valuable subject of study, which lies at the intersection of politics, economics, science, nature and culture, between the individual and collective dimensions, and also between the local, regional and global levels. Climate change is one of the great issues of our time, which makes teaching how to deal…

8-10 August 2025: WJEC2025: From Perth to San Francisco!                                           

Events

Last week WJEC got the message that Edith Cowan University is terminating the agreement to host the 7th World Journalism Education Congress. Regrettably, they had to pull out because the estimate was that the congress would make a considerable financial loss. The low number of submissions were not what they were expecting, and if the…

17-21 October 2024: Successful General Assembly 2024 of the Forum for European Journalism Students at TU Dortmund University (Dortmund – Germany)

Events

Under the title “Beyond the Headlines: The Power of Investigative and Slow Journalism”, the Forum for European Journalism Students (FEJS) organised its General Assembly 2024 at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism and Institute of Journalism at TU Dortmund University two weeks ago. Almost 50 journalism students and young journalists from 16 countries travelled…

EU Commissioner Praises Media Project of TU Dortmund as a “Shining Example of European Cooperation”: 1,500 European Students Successfully Test New EU Learning Platform of the Dortmund Institute of Journalism

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Launch of the New E-Learning Portal for European Reporting “COPE” – Survey by TU Dortmund Among European Journalism Students Shows: Over 60% of Aspiring Journalists Lack Basic Knowledge about the EU In light of the Russian invasion, European cooperation is becoming increasingly important. There are repeated calls for the media in Europe to report more…

Voices Awards

News

The Voices Awards offers 10 grants of 1,000€ each to young journalists and media literacy advocates to participate in the second edition of the European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy, which will be held in Zagreb from 28 February to 1 March 2025. Winners will be invited to present their work during the festival,…

Registration for AGM & Conference 2024 is open

Events

The Journalism and Digital Media Department at Babeș-Bolyai University will host the 2024 Annual General Meeting (EJTA AGM). Babeș-Bolyai University is Romania’s largest and top-ranked academic institution, with an academic tradition dating back to 1581. Join us in Cluj-Napoca, the “heart of Transylvania”, on 16-18 October at the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences…