EJTA’s Data Journalism Taskforce was officially launched at the AGM 2022. The mission of the Task Force is to promote and facilitate the teaching of Data Journalism to Journalism students in regular programmes and mid-career programmes. The Task Force created discussion lists on Slack and mail and maintains a living document with a list of…
The EJTA project on ‘How to teach inclusive journalism’, based on the pilot project ‘Invisible Cities’ was proposed at the EJTA conference in Aarhus in May 2022 and further developed during a a two days’ kick-off meeting on 7-8 November 2022 in Poznan. We use the results of a questionnaire (data of EJTA schools about…
The coordinators of the DESTIN project (Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism) which EJTA participated in between 2019 and 2022, received official word from the European Education and Culture Executive Agency that they have graded the project as ‘VERY GOOD’, which is the highest possible grade. In this project one…
EJTA appreciates all the work and the input of this important project on creating a MOOC to study the European Cohesion Policy. Because the conditions for EJTA’s participation in the consortium have changed we feel the project won’t benefit anymore from EJTA’s active role as it is now and from 1 September 2023 onwards EJTA…
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…
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…
Twenty journalism schools in fifteen European countries will be fact-checking political claims in the media in the spring of 2019. Tackling misinformation during the EU election campaign is the main objective of the EUFACTCHECK project. With their work the students want to contribute to a more fact-based public debate. All participating Journalism schools are member…