Drawing on original and innovative contributions from educators, practitioners and students, Challenges and New Directions in Journalism Education captures and informs our understanding of journalism pedagogy in the context of ongoing shifts in journalism practice.

Karen Fowler-Watt is Associate Professor of Journalism and research theme lead for the Journalism Education Research Group in Bournemouth University's Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, UK. She is a former BBC journalist who worked in Radio 4 News and Current Affairs as an output editor and as a field producer in the Middle East and the United States.

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of contributors

Editor's introduction

SECTION I

Challenges in Journalism Education

1. A Changed Landscape: Re-imagining journalism education 'post-pandemic'

Karen Fowler-Watt

2. Broadening Horizons: can student perspectives help meet journalism's challenges?

Andrew Bissell

3. A 'Hotchpotch of conflicting schools': The problems plaguing journalism education in the 2020s

Graham Majin

4. Sports journalism's dilemma: all about celebrating the spectacle?

Max Mauro

5. Why Politics and Public Affairs still matter

David Brine

6. Media Literacy and/in Journalism Education - Learning from (Media) Action

Julian McDougall

SECTION II

New Directions in Journalism Education

7. Inclusive approaches to news

Daniel Henry and De Graft Mensah

8. Integrating journalism education and the sustainability agenda

Fiona Cownie and Michael Sunderland

9. From skillset to mindset: the re-conceptualisation of entrepreneurial journalism in Higher Education

Jo Royle

10. My Story: Journalism for and by young people to prevent the recruitment of children and teenagers by non-state armed groups in Colombia.

Mathew Charles

11. Better Safe than Sorry: Preparing journalism students for a dangerous world.

Jaron Murphy

Reflections

Index