On June 17^th, 18^th and 19^th  will take place the wrap-up activity of the “Integrated Journalism in Europe” (IJIE) project. Coordinated by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, four other European universities have also taken part: Université Paris 8, Danish School of Media and Journalism, Babes-Bolyai University and Linnaeus University. The conferences will be delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. It will also integrate newsroom’s software innovations demonstrations and new trends on Journalism teaching workshops.

This conference has born as a result of the moment of change, experimentation and restructuring that journalism is currently living. One of the main driving forces behind the changes in newsrooms today is media convergence. For this reason, European universities face the challenge of adapting their curricula to fit the new educational, economic and professional environments. The challenge is to train a generation of “integrated journalists”.

How are universities anticipating the changes that media convergence is bringing? What is the profile of a young trainee journalist? Is it the same one the industry is demanding? All these questions and a few more, will try to find answer during the conference.

“Shaping the future of news media” is part of the project “IJIE”, which is linked to changes in the European higher education curriculum and global media changes. In this ever-evolving media landscape, universities should foster research and encourage the adoption of new dynamics and innovative techniques in newsrooms, in order to train a new generation of versatile journalists.

In synthesis, the aim is to promote four key cornerstones in journalism education today: innovation in media convergence; collaborative ties between universities and media organizations; professional simulation in classrooms and internationalization of teaching. The long-term goal of the project is to create an innovative methodology of journalism integration that establishes what media companies expect nowadays from future journalists.

Now so far, “Integrated Journalism in Europe” has created a database, a guidebook and an interactive online map of European universities that provide training in journalism and offer different national reports on the academic and professional situation of integrated journalism.

On the other hand, it has also developed the online platform EUROMAIN, which would be the system for the future European Network of Journalists Student Correspondents. This will make possible the cross-border collaboration between European students in the design of journalistic contents. All these outputs were tested during a pilot week held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in March 2015.

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Mireia Rom

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The conference was held at Trier University. At the round table session dedicated to “What we are facing: International perspectives on challenges to journalism education”, Da Rocha made it clear that those involved in the teaching of journalism have to face the challenge of adapting its curriculum to the new dynamics of media convergence and demand greater research regarding the teaching of media convergence in the classroom. Da Rocha was joined at the table by Natalia Makarova and Veronika Yarnykh from the Russian State University for the Humanities and Michael Harnischmacher from the University of Trier. ECREA is the most important forum for communication research and education in Europe. All activities within ECREA are developed and organised to serve the community, enhance the quality of communication research and higher education, provide opportunities to exchange, share and collaborate, and to promote the interests of communication scholars.

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Irene Da Rocha

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The researcher delved into the key trends and outcomes of the comparative report produced within the IJIE research.

Xavier Ramon

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In his presentation, Jorgensen delved into the key findings of the IJIE project. More precisely, he addressed the core dilemmas facing the teaching of cross-media journalistic work that have emerged from the national reports and comparative report, documents produced within the research. Those include: (1) the multi-skilling/de-skilling schism; (2) the diverse tech-savvy among journalists and (3) the constant restructuring of journalism education.

In his talk, Jorgensen also shed light on central recommendations from the IJIE project, such as the following:

• We seriously need mobile thinking in our curricula.
• The market demands highly specialised experts and fast-working generalists; and nothing in-between.
• There is an urgent need for updating ethics codes and teaching practices, with regards to changes in the way we collect, assess, and disseminate story elements.
• Journalists must master cross-media platforms, and must also possess collaborative skills.
• Entrepreneurial skills are needed while a new media industry is taking over from legacy media.
• Journalists must speak the language of the IT experts; coding is a candidate for journalism curricula.

Xavier Ramon

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In the presentation, which was a part of the opening plenary session “Adapt or Die – Journalism education and big changes in the media landscape”, findings from work packages 2 and 3 were presented with specific focus on the Nordic educations and media industry. The following questions were posed to the audience: Being journalism educators, which methods, material and technology do we need to prepare the students for cross-media and collaborative journalism? How does a digital and convergent media landscape affect journalism ethics and the journalistic identity? And facing the radical changes in the media landscape, should we teach new business models and entrepreneurship?

The Nordic Conference for Journalism teachers takes place every second year with participation from 20 Nordic journalism educational institutions from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Denmark.

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Kresten Roland Johansen and Asbjørn Slot Jørgensen

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At the round table session dedicated to “Journalism and Digital Culture”, Da Rocha, Tulloch and Fernández, from the UPF, made it clear that those involved in the teaching of journalism have to face the challenge of adapting its curriculum to the new dynamics of media convergence and demand greater research regarding the teaching of media convergence in the classroom. According to the three IJIE researchers, the changing communicative scenario requires a response from the university to be able to meet demands in the workplace. Before a specialized public, the IJIE researchers outlined how this newsroom integration and media convergence is being taught within Journalism faculties in Spain.

Their preliminary results show that, despite some pioneering experiences, the Spanish university has still not adapted itself to the everyday dynamics of the profession. In the majority of cases, this challenge is met from a highly theoretical standpoint and as a branch of cyberjournalism. As part of this study, and in conjunction with all the IJIE partners, Da Rocha, Tulloch and Fernández explained that the curriculum of 36 Spanish universities offering journalism has been analysed and that in-depth interviews with experts in media convergence, journalism teaching staff and media professionals have also been carried out.

Da Rocha, Tulloch and Fernández were joined at the table by Hibai López, fellow researcher at the UPF, who presented a paper on social media conversation in the Spanish sports press and Guillermina Franco and David Garcia from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid who offered a complementary paper comparing citizens networks and alternative communication platforms with the mainstream press in the field of political communication and public opinion.

The AEIC Congress is the most important forum for communication research in Spain. This year, it was held from the 21st-24th of January, over 400 researchers participated and 250 academic papers were presented.

Christopher Tulloch

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One of the central issues that will be explored in the seminar will be the use of data journalism and its impact on the practice of media professionals. The wide implications related to data journalism will be examined, such as the current role of the traditional model of journalism, the production of information collaboratively between journalists and audiences or the deontological problems associated with online journalism.

The speakers that will participate in the seminar are Marie Coussin, data journalist at Askmedia and Alexandre Léchenet, data journalist at LeMonde.fr, co-authors of the book ‘Guide du datajournalisme‘ (Eyrolles, 2013) and Nathalie Pignard Cheynel (Université de Lorraine and member of CREM). The chairs of the seminar will be Aurélie Aubert (CEMTI) and Gaël Villeneuve (LCP).

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The programme of the event pivoted around three key axes: (1) the theoretical perspectives on convergent media and journalism; (2) the challenges and innovations in researching convergent media and journalism and (3) teaching convergent media and journalism. Regarding this latter aspect, the conference delegates debated on the adaptation and adoption of convergent media in the classroom, focusing on central issues such as the efficiency of e-learning platforms such as Moodle; the use of social networking services and multimedia resources in teaching journalism; the teaching and learning via mobile platforms or the ethical and aesthetical aspects of implementing new technologies, among others.

The keynote speakers that participated in the conference were Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California), Peter Gross (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Juan Carlos Sánchez Illán (University Carlos III of Madrid) and Tudor Vlad (Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia). Elena Abrudan, Radu Meza, Andrei Costina and George Prundaru, IJIE team members from Babeș-Bolyai University, were part of the organising committee.

Xavier Ramon

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In the conference, they will present the paper ‘Fostering Integrated Journalism Education in Europe‘. The authors will introduce to the audience the Erasmus Long Life Program  ‘Integrated Journalism in Europe’. They will highlight the cornerstones in the innovation of journalism training in the current scenario: Integration of media, Professional simulation, Collaboration between universities and media companies and Internationalization. The experience drawn from the introduction and consolidation of this model at

Pompeu Fabra University with the subject ‘Integrated Journalism Workshop’ (Bachelor in Journalism) and its product ‘Cetrencada’ will be thoroughly explained. Finally, the key goals of the research project will be disseminated.

Xavier Ramon

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In his presentation, he will examine the foundations of the collaborative approach between Cetrencada (product developed at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Journalism Studies) and the online media VilaWeb, the production routines and the quality criteria and ethical principles that students must fulfil in their task. Later, he will present the results of the analysis of the multimedia reports multimedia reports carried out by students between October 2011 and April 2013. In addition, he will thoroughly evaluate the experience of the students’ live coverage as correspondents of VilaWeb on the Catalonian Parliamentary Elections 2012.

Finally, regarding the future challenges, particular emphasis will be placed on explaining how the Integrated Journalism in Europe (IJIE) project can help to promote the exchange of journalistic production between European students and boost the internationalization of the methodological approach of simulation, integration and collaboration between universities and companies.

Xavier Ramon

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