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Soul-searching at the crossroads of journalism education
Nordenstreng, Kaarle
Nordenstreng, Kaarle
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"How to characterise and label these developments? Two keywords are obvious: opportunities and threats – the last two elements familiar to SWOT analysis. And there is a clear contradiction between these perspectives. Media and journalism is indeed a field of contradictions and paradoxes – the other two keywords. Developments especially relating to media technologies are full of contradictions, but so also are the general socio-political and cultural developments in the world. Accordingly, there are no longer clear black and white answers, but more and more questions, challenges, and reasoning ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’. Saying this doesn’t mean that I have turned liberal from being an old radical. On the contrary, I think that a true radical today is a kind of dialectic; we have reverted to the old dialectics. What actions should we take? Firstly, an obvious conclusion is that we need to promote networking between journalism educators. There are thousands of colleagues and institutions that should be supported by the synergy of contacts and cooperation, both in analysis and action. This work has been started by the Global Network for Professional Education in Journalism and Media (http://www.journet.org/) and continued by the World Journalism Education Congress (http://www.amic-wjec.org/). Secondly, I have a specific proposal: to begin preparing a Unesco Recommendation for journalism education. Such universal instruments have been made for a number of areas, but not for the field of media and journalism. Initiated by JourNet and drafted together with all professional and academic circles, a Unesco Recommendation could become an important instrument in promoting and implementing the objectives of JourNet."
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2008-07
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