How to teach digital journalism skills - Invitation to the third multiplier event of NEWSREEL project

Journalists have an essential role in the new media landscape as a pillar of credible and contextualized information. Being in competition with several alternatives, non-professional or even deliberately manipulated news, professional journalism should be empowered by new competencies and skills.
New Skills for the Next Generation of Journalists (NEWSREEL) is a project funded by the Erasmus+. In the project four partner organizations from four countries work together: the University of Pécs (Hungary), which is also the project leader, the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism from TU Dortmund (Germany), the University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal) and the University of Bucharest (Romania). By improving skills of a new generation of European journalists, NEWSREEL contributes to the strengthening of the common European democratic public sphere.

In the representation of NEWSREEL team, we would like to invite you to our multiplier event that will take place in Pécs, Hungary on the 6th of November. During the one day event we will present the developed e-learning materials with our colleagues from Portugal, Germany and Romania. The materials are connected to four specific fields: data journalism, collaborative journalism, new business models of journalism, and the ethical challenges of the digital public sphere.

Date: 6th of November
Venue: Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pécs (Hungary)
           7630 Pécs, Zsolnay Vilmos st. 16. Building E25

PROGRAMME

09:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 11: 30 Welcoming & presentation of the e-learning materials developed in the NEWSREEL project (307)

Welcome speeches:

• Dr. András Láng, vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs

• Dr. Zsolt Szijártó, head of the Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pécs
• Dr. Gábor Polyák, professional leader of NEWSREEL project, University of Pécs
  

Presentations:

• New business strategies and models of journalism (Ana Pinto Martinho & Miguel Crespo, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Collaborative journalism (Nadia Leihs & Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer, Erich Brost Institute - TU Dortmund, Germany)
• Data journalism & data visualization (Emilia Sercan, Raluca Radu & FJSC team, University of Bucharest, Romania)
• Ethical challenges of the digital public sphere (Gábor Polyák & Annamária Torbó - University of Pécs, Hungary)

Moderator: Annamária Torbó (University of Pécs)

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch (ground floor)

12:30 – 14:00 Round-table discussion about the role of new journalistic skills in journalism education (307)

• János Nagy (University of Pécs, Hungary)
• Tamás Bokor (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)
• Sándor Orbán (Center for Independent Journalism, Hungary)
  

Moderator: Gábor Polyák (University of Pécs)

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee break (ground floor)

14:30 – 15:30 Fake news and fact checking – A challenge for the media and journalism education – A lecture by Michal Kuś (University of Wroclaw, Poland) (307)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break (ground floor)

16:00 – 17:00 Workshop – Testing the developed e-learning materials (002)
                       Moderated by representatives of the NEWSREEL team

The programme at the department is followed by a round-table discussion with Hungarian journalists (in Hungarian).

Venue: Reggeli
            Pécs, Király u. 23-25.

18:00 – 19:30 Snowdentől az álhírekig – A digitális újságírás etikai kérdései / From Snowden to disinformation – Ethical challenges of digital journalism

• Katus Eszter (Átlátszó)
• Babos Attila (Szabad Pécs)
• Varga Christian-Zsolt (n-ost)

Moderátor: Polyák Gábor (Pécsi Tudományegyetem)

19:30 – Reception (in Reggeli)