World Journalism Education Congress


Journalism education association leaders from around the globe met in San Francisco to discuss and firm up final plans for the World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC), which will be held in Singapore June 25-28, 2007.

The WJEC, supported by 23 journalism education organizations worldwide*, will be the first international conference focused on bringing together leaders of journalism education organizations and/or journalism educators worldwide to discuss the current state of journalism education on a global scale and how to improve it.

The Congress will hold a wide variety of research and professional development sessions and will feature special meetings and interactive workshops for all journalism education administrators, journal editors and teachers attending the conference. And through a special program, all conference attendees will be given the opportunity to meet in themed groups to discuss their special concerns.

The Congress is designed to provide all those involved in journalism education a platform to discuss their common concerns and an opportunity to help build a foundation to continue improving journalism education worldwide.

The Congress represents AEJMC’s International Task Force’s first major attempt to help internationalize AEJMC. Former AEJMC president Joe Foote created this task force, consisting of international communication division members, to help get this conference and other ITF initiatives off the ground. Ever since the task force proposed the idea of the Congress three years ago, it has been working hard to make it a reality. This effort took off last year when the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), a non-profit Asian media organization, offered to host this event at its home base in Singapore. The Congress will run in conjunction with AMIC’s 16th annual conference (AMIC, www.amic.org.sg, is issuing a separate call for papers.)

For more WJEC details, click on http://www.amic-web.org/wjec/ <http://www.amic-web.org/wjec/> . And if you would like to volunteer for a WJEC committee or have any questions, please contact Robyn S. Goodman at fgoodman@alfred.edu <mailto:fgoodman@alfred.edu> .

*WJEC supporters include: African Council on Communication Education (ACCE), Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Association for Journalism Education (U.K.), Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC), Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Studies on Communication (Intercom, Brazil), Broadcast Education Association (BEA), China Association of Journalism and Communication Education, Chinese Communication Association (CCA), European Journalism Training Association (EJTA), Global Network for Professional Education in Journalism and Media (JourNet), Israel Communication Association, Journalism Education Association (Australia, New Zealand), Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies, Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC) , Latin American Federation of Social Communication University Programs (FELAFACS), Philippine Association of Communication Educators (PACE), Russian Association for Education in Journalism, Russian Association for Film & Media Education, Saudi Association for Media & Communication, and South African Communication Association.