Journalism Education Research Articles

From Challenge-Based Learning to Relational Coordination: An Interdisciplinary Educational-Research Collaboration in Medical Journalism Education

Interdisciplinary collaboration (IDC) faces several long-standing challenges including poor teamwork, resistance to socialization, inadequate attention given to learners' abilities, incomplete reporting, lack of quality methodology, and vague understanding of reflexivity. In an attempt to tackle these challenges, the purpose of this case study was to report an interdisciplinary educational-research collaboration (IDERC) involving two faculty members (NS and SA) from different departments who were simultaneously instructing a master’s student (St) in two separate courses. The methodology involved addressed the learning needs of St in two concurrent courses as well as fulfilling particular research activities. A few different reflection-gathering tools were adopted to elicit the two participants’ (SA and St) views on the impacts of the IDERC. Thematic analysis of SA’s interview concerning her experiences with the IDERC indicated that she was motivated by a range of personal, educational, and research factors. It also showed her positive outlook on how a similar IDERC could benefit faculty members and students as well as knowledge development. SA also went through the reasons why educators may be hesitant or resistant to deal with IDC. When probing St’s experiences with the IDERC incorporated inside his class tasks and an open-ended questionnaire, he not only highlighted the educational and research outcomes he gained, but also mentioned how he was influenced by the instructors' socialization behavior. Regarding the requirements of an IDC, St's main focus was on successful implementation and prioritizing efficiency. Suggestions are provided as to how this collaboration can be extended to larger contexts.

Bridging the Knowledge Divide: Journalism Education and Industry Needs in East and Southern Africa

This study explores the perceived gap between journalism education and professional practice in Tanzania and Zambia. Through interviews with educators and journalists and an analysis of 12 journalism curricula, the findings reveal that both educators and journalists acknowledged a gap, with a shared desire for improved alignment between academic programs and industry needs. Educators expressed a commitment to incorporating contemporary content, but face challenges like limited industry collaboration and resource constraints. Journalists, however, observed a hesitancy among educators in implementing recommendations from the industry. Both groups see the need for integrating theory and practice into the curricula.

Unraveling the Tapestry of Journalistic Writing Proficiency of Chinese Student

This research examines the journalistic writing competence of Chinese students in journalism programs highlighting correctness, clarity, conciseness, objectivity, ethical concerns, and fact-checking. It also investigates the socio-cultural, educational, and linguistic elements affective student’s writing abilities and how they forecast writing ability. Data were collected using a mixed-methods approach, comprising student tests and interviews with journalism educators, to ascertain the principal hurdles students have in cultivating writing proficiency. Based on the examination of the student tests and interviews, it was discovered that students recognize deficiencies in correctness, obtaining external validation for neutrality and ethics, and achieving acknowledgment for fact-checking endeavors. Socio-cultural factors such as self-censorship and political sensitivities have the most significant impact on their writing proficiency. The study suggested there is a need for enforcing students’ language skills and exposure to authentic journalism techniques, self-censorship, a test-centric educational framework, and addressing the obstacles in conforming to international media norms.

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Spanish Journalism Education: A Curricular Analysis

Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data have impacted different professional sectors in our society. Communication and journalism are clearly among them. From the automatic generation of content to the identification of topics of interest or monitoring of users’ usage habits, AI introduces important training challenges for professionals in the field of communication. Meanwhile, big data analytics enables data journalists to handle large amounts of information in an automated manner, allowing them to perform in-depth analysis of disorganized data. This study analyzes the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data in the curricula of journalism degrees offered by Spanish universities. The research employs quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the typology, syllabus, and distribution of subjects directly or indirectly addressing AI and big data topics, based on indicators such as structure, credit system, objectives, competencies, and professional profiles. The results reveal a scarce integration of AI and Big Data subjects in journalism curricula in Spain. Among the analyzed courses, only seven addressed data journalism as a complete course, while 19 introduced AI and Big Data as part of more general content. The study highlights the need for journalism education to adapt to the disruptive impact of AI and big data on the profession. It discusses the debate between focusing on teaching technological skills versus providing critical and ethical values. The research aims to contribute to the discussion on the readiness of journalism curricula to cope with technological advancements by analyzing the Spanish case.

The Application and Training of News Interviewing Skills in Journalism Education

With the rapid development of the information age, the demand for professional interviewing skills in the news media industry continues to grow, making the training of interviewing skills in journalism education particularly important. This paper explores the application and training methods of news interviewing skills within journalism education. By analyzing the application of interviewing skills in classroom teaching and off-campus practices, it proposes specific methods for basic interviewing skills, advanced interviewing skills, and comprehensive quality enhancement training. The study finds that current journalism education faces issues such as the disconnection between theory and practice and a lack of diverse teaching content, and it offers corresponding improvement strategies. The aim is to provide a reference for journalism educators to enhance the interviewing skills and overall quality of journalism students, enabling them to adapt to the constantly changing media environment.

Collaborative Journalism Around the Globe: A Systematic Review

This systematic review examines a decade of collaborative journalism research globally, extracting 40 articles from ProQuest and Scopus databases. The study underscores collaborative journalism’s efficacy in addressing cross-border issues and engaging diverse audiences but note its underexplored status in Africa. Four dimensions emerged: social media and audience engagement, journalism education and technology, challenges and barriers, and collaboration models. Identified research gaps include media policy, violence against journalists and ethical implications. The review advocates grounded studies using appropriate theories and calls for more collaborative journalism research in Africa.

Educating for a Changing Media Landscape: Four Scenarios for Journalism Education in 2030

ABSTRACT Over the past decades, journalism schools and journalism training programmes have been trying to keep up with the constant technological and societal developments. Numerous studies have been done about what knowledge and skills should be taught and several on how they should be taught, to be more adaptive to this changing environment and media landscape. Meanwhile, also media companies are increasingly becoming educators, with their own learning academies to make journalists become lifelong learners. In this study, which was conducted in the Netherlands, we take a holistic approach to understanding the uncertain future journalism education is currently dealing with. We use the method of scenario planning to systematically analyse the current debate on journalism education. By collecting opinions and views of fifty different experts from the broad field of journalism and (journalism) education, we deducted certain and uncertain trends that led to two axes, answering the following questions: What type of journalism do we educate for and Who is in charge of the learning process? Crossing these axes, four scenarios for the future of journalism education appear. With this study, we intend to facilitate the debate on the future of journalism education.

Introduction. Our relationships with GenAI and the media: Testing the limits of transparency, trust and moral agency

We present the last part of this special issue on Use of Artificial Intelligence in Communication: Ethical Implications for Media. This editorial examines the role that humans should play in the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the media. It provides an overview of transparency as an ethical obligation in relation to trust and truthfulness when using GenAI to create different kinds of content. Finally, it enters into the debate about the moral status of machines as we anticipate ethical questions in the study of ethics and GenAI in the media. Six articles complete this special issue with studies examining implications of GenAI for semiotics research, public relations, advertising, fact checking, information literacy and journalism education.

Balancing journalism education and community radio news: A ‘bittersweet’ paradox

The Community Broadcasting Codes of Practice (the Codes) play an important role in shaping what Australians listen to and how they engage with their local community radio station. In a sector defined by grassroots participation and a non-professional, volunteer workforce, the Codes aim to model best practice in terms of content, community participation and governance. Several sections apply specifically to news and current affairs (NCAF) coverage, yet there is no independent research that explores the sector’s alignment with the Codes in this area. Drawing on a content analysis of 572 community radio NCAF stories broadcast on nationally syndicated programmes, and interviews with journalists and news producers, this research sought to critically analyse NCAF coverage on community radio in light of the Codes of Practice. The results of the research suggest that NCAF coverage on community radio broadly aligns with the Codes of Practice, yet there are mixed interpretations of what can be considered ‘views not adequately represented’ elsewhere. Part of this uncertainty stems from the reliance on media students as volunteer journalists. This article interrogates this tension between the sector’s role as an informal ‘training ground’ for aspiring media workers and its remit to provide alternative NCAF coverage.

The roles and ethics of journalism: A comparative study of journalistic cultures in two student cohorts

This study uses journalistic instrumental-value surveys to compare how two cohorts of postgraduate journalism students, one of which completed undergraduate studies in Australia and the other in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), weigh the importance of journalistic ethics and roles. It finds that the students who previously studied in Australia consistently value the adversarial and interpretative functions of the press as more important, while the students who studied in China rate the mobilizer and disseminator function of journalists as more significant. While the differences surrounding perception of ethical issues are not pronounced, the students who had studied in China perceive greater difficulty resolving issues of taste and decency. Drawing on a schema used by Hanusch and Hanitzsch in 2019, the study analyses the results in respect of differing journalistic cultures and notes the implications for an Australian journalistic education system that increasingly services international students.

Japan’s Educational Journalism and Joseon Education in the First Half of 20th Century

Japan’s Educational Journalism and Joseon Education in the First Half of 20th Century

TRANSFORMING JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION EDUCATION:

The study focuses on Journalism and Communication education in developing countries that indicates a compromise and balance of traditional outlay and modern technology but resulted to a mismatch of ‘slow march to fast music’. Expansion of media is not commensurate with the population in both the countries studied. It has been observed that with thriving democracy, the growth of mass media is reflective with the growth of media education in Bangladesh, whereas the growth of media and the state of democracy both are in formative stage in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was examined that media in Bangladesh have been contributing potentially to create pluralistic democratic values to a densely populated country. Newspapers and TV channels draw communication graduates from public and private universities. The study envisaged that Papua New Guinea, an independent country in 1975, and world’s most diversified nation with highest number of languages, 823 languages among 6.5 million people, craving for a working democracy with meager state of media in the country. On the other hand, alternative media education as conceptualized as ‘Civic Journalism’ got a trial in one of the public universities. It has been focused to rural areas and on the issues like human rights, good governance, gender, democracy, rule of law and justice, and environment.

Bridging theory and practice via education: Insights from the erasmus mundus journalism programme

The disconnect in how practitioners and scholars talk about what journalism is and does, and what it could be or do, is often striking. With more universities and other institutions worldwide offering journalism education, and the growing number of journalists turned scholars or instructors, there have been sporadic efforts to bridge the pervasive gap between theory and practice. In this paper, I discuss some of the challenges and opportunities of bridging said gap by drawing on the Erasmus Mundus Journalism Programme as a case study. I delve into some ways in which we deal with co-teaching across institutions to train an exceptionally diverse group of students with a global, collaborative, and interdisciplinary mindset. Finally, I claim that we tend to talk about the theory-practice gap in rather narrow terms and point towards ways to rethink the directionality of this relationship to further a truly reflective and critical journalism education.

Integrating the Survey of Regional Rural Cultural Inheritance into the Teaching Practice of Communication Studies

In China, communication studies, as a discipline, have a history of more than ten years, but as a secondary discipline under “journalism and communication studies”, communication education has no its own characteristics from traditional journalism education. The talent cultivation model that not only focuses on cultivating students’ social science theoretical qualities, but also on cultivating practical skills and professional practical abilities has not yet been formed. In order to cultivate students’ social awareness in professional practice, the study explores, for the regional universities in China, how to incorporate regional cultural characteristic elements into cultivating journalism and communication talents with the construction of a “practice-oriented” applied communication talent training model.

Comparison of Instructions to Authors and Reporting of Ethics Components in Selected African Biomedical Journals: 2008 and 2017.

Journal editors instruct authors to describe human participant protections in original research reports. However, little is known about African biomedical journal authors' adherence to such journal editors' instructions. This study investigated changes in editors' instructions to authors and authors' reporting of research ethics information in selected African biomedical journals between 2008 and 2017. Twelve selected journal websites and online articles were reviewed in Eastern, Southern, and Western African [ESWA] countries. A pre-tested schema and a checklist were used to collect data from journal websites and articles published in 2008 and 2017, and the data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Half of the journals requested prospective authors to disclose ethics approval and related issues in their manuscripts between 2008 and 2017. There was a significant increase in instructions to authors regarding information on the protection of research participants within this period; more authors complied with these requirements in 2017 than in 2007.

Application and Innovation of Computer Graphics Design Courses in Journalism Education under the Context of Media Convergence

Application and Innovation of Computer Graphics Design Courses in Journalism Education under the Context of Media Convergence

Moonlighting as a Survival Strategy for Journalists in Southwest Nigeria

This study examines the prevalence and implications of moonlighting among journalists in Southwest Nigeria within the context of the evolving online journalism landscape. As traditional media outlets face financial challenges and digital platforms reshape news consumption patterns, many journalists are turning to secondary employment to supplement their income. Through a mixed-methods approach combining surveys and in-depth interviews with 150 journalists from Southwest Nigeria, this research explores the motivations, forms, and consequences of moonlighting practices. The findings reveal that over 70% of respondents engage in some form of moonlighting, with content creation, freelance writing, and digital marketing being the most common secondary activities. The study also found that, while moonlighting provides essential financial support, it also raises concerns about journalistic integrity, work-life balance, and the quality of news production. This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the changing nature of journalism in the digital age and offers insights for media organizations, policymakers, and journalism educators in Southwest Nigeria and beyond.

EGFR mutations and abnormal trafficking in cancers.

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor and a member of the ErbB receptor family. As a significant cancer driver, EGFR undergoes mutations such as gene amplification or overexpression in a wide range of malignant tumors and is closely associated with tumorigenesis. This review examines the aberrant expression of EGFR in several common cancers and summarizes the current therapeutic strategies developed for this receptor. Additionally, this review compares the differences in EGFR activation, internalization, endocytosis, and sorting in normal and cancer cells, and highlights some regulatory factors that influence its trafficking process.Kindly check and confirm the edit made in the title.Yes, correctAs per journal instructions structured abstract is mandatory kindly provideThe abstract format does not apply to Review articles.

Practices of objectivity formation in journalism education

Practices of objectivity formation in journalism education

Thelma Berlack Boozer: A “Forgotten First” at the School of Journalism at Lincoln University

ABSTRACT This article shows that Thelma Berlack Boozer (1906–2001) was the first Black person to hold professorial rank in a School of Journalism at a US university. The School of Journalism at Lincoln University in Missouri appointed her associate professor and acting director in 1942. She held these posts until 1944. Previous histories identify Dr. Armistead S. Pride as the first director and professor in the same school, but the historical record shows that he was not appointed until 1945. This article examines Berlack Boozer’s appointment at Lincoln and discusses why scholars have mostly forgotten her contributions to HBCU journalism education. This article also contributes to the history of journalism education in the US and to the study of the role of women in the history of the Black press and Black journalism by giving long-overdue recognition to Berlack Boozer.