The Independent Media Centre in Kurdistan is looking for a new director.
The director is in charge of running the organization in Sulaymaniya and Erbil with a staff of 8, and of the running of projects. Apart from training journalists and media, IMCK also runs a post graduate training (Media bo Khalk) and a website (KirkukNow.com).
The director is responsible for planning and developing training, and is assisted by an assistant director on finance and fundraising.
The position needs to be filled no later than April 1, 2012.

For more info, click here.

Please note that our annual conference will be in

Istanbul

at the invitation of Bilgi University

from May 17-18 2012

We are planning to organize study tours, have one or two best practice sessions, and also have a short conference on press freedom and similar issues. And of course, we plan to enjoy being in Istanbul! Do please get this into your diaries

Professors, professionals and teaching staff from universities are invited to participate at the UAO International Journalism Week – 2012 entitled The new faces of Journalism and Mass Media. Communication in the 21st century.
The event is organized by the Department of Journalism Studies of the Abat Oliba CEU University (http://www.uao.es) from February the 27th to March the 2nd 2012. The activity is a part of the Abat Oliba CEU International Journalism / Mass Media Programme and seeks to create a space of exchange and collaboration between teachers and students from different international universities in the area of Journalism and Mass Media studies.
Please click here for more details or contact:
Prof. Andreu Rocha Scarpetta
Vice-dean of Journalism Studies
Abat Oliba CEU University – Barcelona
E-mail:

The European Journalism-Fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin is a programme for mid-career journalists, designed to give participants the opportunity to take a two-semester leave from their professional positions and spend a sabbatical year in Berlin to work on a major research project. Journalists from all European countries and the United States of America are invited to apply for a fellowship.
Each fellow pursues a custom-made programme that is organized around a specific project defined by the applicant: an individual journalistic research project, the results of which will later be published. The objective of studies in Berlin is to broaden professional knowledge and specialized expertise while building upon previous journalistic experience. Fellows are free to take advantage of course offerings at the Berlin universities, and to participate in events organized by other scholarly and cultural institutions in the German capital.
At the same time, journalists have an opportunity to meet colleagues from Eastern and Western Europe and the United States of America.
The European Journalism-Fellowships were modelled after well-established and highly regarded fellowship programmes for American journalists, such as the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University.
In Europe, the “sabbatical” offered in the framework of the EJF-programme, with its European and transatlantic focus, represents a hitherto unique opportunity for journalists.

The closing date for applications is January 31, 2012 (Superior Fellowship December 15, 2011).

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the EJF team at .

Please find here further information (German, English, Russian) on the “European Journalism-Fellowships” and the application form.

More than fifty members and speakers gathered for the annual general meeting and conference in May. On the first day we welcomed Jonathan Hewett from City University
London, who gave a fascinating insight in the latest trends in journalism and in teaching journalism, Grzegorz Piechota from Gazeta Wyborcza in Poland, who regaled us
with stories of the innovations at his newspaper, which began life during the political upheavals in Poland in 1989.

The conference dinner was held at the hall of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, one of the City of London Livery Companies. Parts of the hall date
back to 1673. The company was formed more than 600 years ago to protect the rights of those who copied and sold manuscript books around St Paul’s Cathedral.
On the second day of the conference we heard thought-provoking addresses from many experts on hyperlocal news – from the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark as well as the UK.

Two reporters, part of a consortium called wannabehacks live blogged the conference. Their reports can be found here

• - Final live blog
• - Storify (collection of photos, tweets, URLs)
• - Flickr photos
• - Audioboo page
• - Download all presentations

Madrid November 14-15, hosted by the El Pais School.

All mid-career institutions are invited to send representatives to this meeting.

Please contact for further information

Two new members were welcomed at the Annual General Meeting and Conference at City University London in May.
They are:

Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

PMA Media Training Ltd, London, United Kingdom

See the blog and discussion platform for more information and join the discussion.

Journalism and media are in the midst of a major transition as citizen reporting, technology and new opportunities for profit are popping up. No matter what changes happen in the industry, journalism students need to remember the basic principles of good reporting, like writing, storytelling and investigative journalism, as well as master new media techniques and trends. Here are 40 important lectures for learning it all

Interested in joining the EJTA project ‘Rise and Fall’ Part 2?

These are the 5 themes that 6 EJTA members are going to work on:

1.Impact Twitter on Journalism
2.Rise/Fall of Reality TV
3.Nationalism in your country
4.Euroleaque Football wanted?
5.Rise/Fall Music Industry Part 2

What do we expect?

Choose 2 to 5 themes and choose an appropriate medium:

Written articles for website: in correct English, 8000 characters and 2 pictures that can be published (without copyright);
Videos: 5 minutes, subtitles in English;
Radio: 4 minutes, with music and voice-over in English.

Deadline

Beginning of April 2011

Participating institutions:

University of Applied Sciences, Haaga-Helia, Finland
Sofia University, Bulgaria
City University London, United Kingdom
School of Journalism and Public Relations, Skopje, Macedonia
Lessius Mechelen, Belgium
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Outcome?

Everything will be put on the EJTA website.

Want to see the Pilot Project ‘Rise and Fall of Music Industry Part 1’?

http://www.supo.be/zoek/ejta

Interested in joining?

Contact:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the keynote speaker at the World Journalism Education Congress in Grahamstown, South Africa last month. More than 400 delegates attended the congress and the simultaneous Highway Africa meeting
The WJEC, the second of its kind, was supported by the EJTA, and EJTA president Anna McKane and former president Marianne Peters were among the delegates.
Nico Drok, who presented his paper on EJTA’s research into journalism competencies, was also representing EJTA.
Papers, reports and video from the congress are now online at http://wjec.ru.ac.za/.
The WJEC is now firmly on the agenda, and a third congress is proposed for three years’ time. See below for a call for proposals.

The World Journalism Education Congress announces a call for proposals to host the 3rd World Journalism Education Congress to be held in 2013.  This third meeting will follow two highly successful meetings in Singapore (2007) and Grahamstown, South Africa (2010).  The congresses are held under the auspices of the World Journalism Education Council, which is an informal coalition of 29 academic organizations involved partly or wholly in journalism education and is dedicated to advancement of the field by sponsoring congresses, conducting a global census and producing scholarship (wjec.ou.edu).

Proposals to host the 3rd World Journalism Education Congress in 2013 should meet the following criteria:

1.Bids should be endorsed by a WJEC organization in the host country.
2.The WJEC may be held in conjunction with an existing academic or professional meeting in the host country.
3.Applicants must show their capability of organizing a multi-faceted academic meeting.
4.Financial responsibility for conducting a WJEC meeting will be the responsibility of the host institution with revenue to be generated by delegate registration, sponsorships, and grants.  Sponsorships should be vetted by the World Journalism Education Council or its Steering Committee.
5.The registration fee will be negotiated between WJEC and the host institution/organization.  Preference will be given to proposals that contain plans for reduced registration for delegates from developing countries following World Bank criteria and sponsorship where possible to support delegates from developing countries.
6.WJEC proposals should include a detailed budget for a three-day congress with revenue and expense projections and contain a letter of commitment from the head of the host institution/organization.
7.Proposals should include a description of transportation options to/from the venue, accommodation options and cultural/tourism opportunities.
8.The three-day program format for WJEC meetings should include the following:
A.Plenaries (no competing sessions scheduled)
B.Panels (two simultaneous sessions)
C.Research Panels (multiple simultaneous sessions)
D.Workshops
E.Small Group Syndicates (no competing sessions scheduled)
9.WJEC will take responsibility for organizing and running the academic paper competition, the competition for panel proposals and the scheduling of syndicates. WJEC will also be responsible for creating and approving the program.
10.Proposals should assume that meetings and presentations will be conducted mainly in English.  Preference will be given to proposals that provide for simultaneous translation of major sessions into other languages.

Deadline for proposals is March 31, 2011.  Proposals should be sent electronically in PDF format to Joe Foote at .  Finalists may be asked to make a presentation at the WJEC planning meeting to be held in spring or summer, 2011.

Approved by World Journalism Education Congress, July 6, 2010.

EJTA president Anna McKane spoke about journalism education at a conference in Paris on September 30 attended by some 200 journalists, academics, trade union representatives, and students.
The conference FAUT-IL FORMER LES JOURNALISTES discussed possible future accreditation of journalism schools in France. At present only 13 schools are recognised by the government and the trade unions, but there are believed to be up to 80 or so schools which are unregulated and unrecognised. A wider accreditation process, which would be supported by the government, will enable employers and students decide on the best places for education. The conference was opened by Valerie Pecresse, Minister for higher education research, and closed by Frederic Mitterrand, Minister for culture and communication.

You can read her presentation here.

Young Reporters Against Poverty (YRAP) is the first Europe-wide competition for journalism students passionate about development issues.

Submit a written article or short radio broadcast in your native language (one of the 23 official EU languages) on ‘EU development assistance’ between 20 September and 29 October 2010, for the chance to win one of 33 live reporting spots at this year’s European Development Days in Brussels.

Watch the professionals at the hands-on training workshops, and your live report from the EDD could bag you a place on the winners’ press trip to Africa!

Nico Drok has been able to obtain funding again from the Dutch Foundation ‘PC Instituut voor Openbare Communicatie’ to subsidise the final phase of our Competences Research Project. This will be research among students and teachers throughout Europe about competences.
We are very grateful to Nico for obtaining this funding. More details of the research will follow.