Yesterday, I was invited to attend two panel discussions, first one at the Human Rights Days (MR-dagarna) in Helsingborg and another at the inaugural event of a newly established local media hub in Gothenburg. Both…
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When I was commissioned by UNESCO and the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) to edit a handbook on reporting about artificial intelligence (AI), the general awareness of AI was rather low. It is amazing how…
My textbook in journalism, Hyvä journalismi [Good journalism], turns 10 years this year. It’s hard to believe that I wrote it already a decade ago – and, at the same time, it was only ten…
This year’s intensive course for Swedish and Finnish journalism students had energy journalism as its theme. The intensive course, organized at Hanaholmen, the cultural centre for Sweden and Finland, is part of a course programme…
A couple of terms ago, I organised a webinar on journalist interns’ learning experiences in co-operation with an other journalism education institution in Finland. The idea was to gather speakers from two universities, Tampere and Jyväskylä, to tell…
It is that time of the year that journalism students are furiously seeking an internship. My job is to gather a list of employers, typically about 80–90 newsrooms, and to help each student to find the…
There are many convincing reasons for why academics should blog (you can see some arguments here, here and here), tweet (see here, here and here), be available at LinkedIn (here, here and here), or Academia.edu, or…