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Focus seminar Monday February 28th

Franz Krüger Challenges to journalism education Please join in for our focus group seminar today with Franz Krüger. Franz will talk about journalism education in South Africa and challenges faced in that context. For the details about the meeting, check out our calendar here: https://www.globaljournalism.community/event/focus-seminar-with-franz-kruger/ Franz Krüger is Adjunct Professor and former head of the Wits Centre for Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He worked in professional journalism for many decades, including as founding group editor

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Upcoming RePast conference

Please take note of the upcoming RePast conference: Negotiating Troubled Pasts: History, Politics, Arts and the Media 28 MAY 2021, 9.00AM-5PM CET Several European societies are still suffering from the conflicts rooted in the past. The Workshop will discuss the outcomes of 12 EU funded international research projects that dealt with the processes of negotiating those troubled pasts. By analysing the discourses in history, media, politics and arts & culture the workshop explores how these discourses impact European societies. A

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Global journalism
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May 18th focus seminar — an update

Please join in for the May 18th seminar, where we pay attention to the current media situation in Kenya. Veteran journalism educator Kåre Melhus will speak on the matter, the presentation shaped as a conversation and an interview by Oddgeir Tveiten. The second half of the seminar will again address the book plans previously announced. Seminar link: https://uiano.zoom.us/j/68557766474?pwd=VDg3MDJxaHQwc0xPSm1FRTRWWGV0dz09 In that context, please note these references posed in the twitter feed on our website. Two highly relevant articles from the New

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New GjC member: Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng

We welcome Dr. Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng to GjC. He is the latest addition to our network, and as head of a journalism division in Ghana also the first from that part of Africa. Dr. Boateng has his higher education from Finland.   In his own words: I am Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng (PhD), currently the Head of Department of the Integrated Social Sciences and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Integrated Social Sciences of the Ghana Institute of Journalism

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Center member profile; Remzie Shahini-Hoxhaj

GjC welcomes Remzie as opening speaker at our May 4th Focus Seminar online. As seen in the session description, our focus is Education this time. Remzie is Assistant professor at the  Journalism Department, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Kosovo. She also works as lecturer at the MultiMedia Arts Department, University of Applied Science Salzburg, Austria. She is the founder and director of the Media Insitute Univeristy of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina” – Kosovo. A common thread running through her work is

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East Africa
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Terje Skjerdal and Mulatu Alemayehu profiled at Oxford University´s Reuters Institute

As some of yoy kow, Terje and Mulatu delivered a report a few months back on the ethnification of Ethiopian journalism. That report has now gained the attention of the Reuters Institute for the study of journalism. The article is signed Benon Herbert Oluka, and is dated March 21, this year: “While Abiy’s efforts to mend fences with neighbour Eritrea won him the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, the ethnic fault lines in his own country have grown deeper. Between 2018

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