This book explains what it means to teach journalism in countries with limited media freedom in the post-pandemic era. It digs into the social and historical factors underpinning the development of journalism university degrees and courses in a selection of illustrative case studies taken from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This work assesses both the limitations and creative opportunities arising from teaching journalism under constraints. Topics include but are not limited to: the application of Western theoretical frameworks in new transnational universities in China; the historical and political roots of the gap between industry and academia in Slovenia; ideological clashes and classism in higher education in the Arab region; scholar-activism in Turkey; decolonizing journalism curricula in South Asia; journalism students as research partners in the Philippines; and the repression of the student press in Mexico. Although this book focuses broadly on the Global South, the theoretical and practical implications of its findings and related discussion will inform the challenges facing journalism training today as a whole.

Diana Garrisi (PhD in Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Westminster) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, China and a Fellow of the Higher Education Association (HEA). She has published in international peer-reviewed journals including Journalism Studies, Early Popular Visual Culture, Media Practice and Education, and Public Understanding of Science. She is co-editor with Jacob Johanssen of the book Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies (Routledge, 2020).

 

Xianwen Kuang (PhD in Journalism, University of Southern Denmark) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University, China and a Fellow of the Higher Education Association (HEA). He has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including Journalism, International Journal of Communication, Problems of Post-Communism, Global Media and China, and The China Quarterly.

Chapter 1IntroductionDiana Garrisi, Xianwen Kuang, Charlie Reis.- Chapter 2Teaching Gatekeeping Theory through role-playing activitiesJesse Owen Hearns-Branaman.- Chapter 3The gap between the media industry and academia in a post-socialist country, SloveniaIrena, Lovreni Dr¸ani and Suzana ´ili Fi¨er.- Chapter 4Teaching business model of digital journalism in China field notesShixin Ivy ZhangandYiben Ma.- Chapter 5Teaching journalism in Egypt: captured between control and transformationCarola Richter andHanan Badr.- Chapter 6 The classroom as praxis: analyzing student responses to critical journalism assignment in TurkeyAlparslan Nas.- Chapter 7Under the wheel of Decolonization and Re-colonization: the crossroads of journalism education in South AsiaMohammad Sahid Ullah.- Chapter 8 A teaching journalism model in audiovisual narrative forms based on research projects by lecturers who also lead student research groupsSandra Carolina Patiño Ospina.- Chapter 9How do students want to learn journalism? A qualitative study from the Philippines Jeremaiah, M. Opiniano andKristine Anne T. Macasiray.- Chapter 10 Educators experiences teaching literary journalism in Brazil: a comparative study with International Community Monica Martinez, Mitzi Lewis, John Hanc, Jeffrey C. Neely.- Chapter 11 Early lessons on censorship and on competing concepts of the press: the teaching of journalism in Mexicos transition to democracyAntoni Castells-Talens, Claudia Magallanes Blanco, Jorge Calles Santillana and Astrid Viveros.- Chapter 12Navigating conflicts between student media and the state in Zambia: challenges and opportunities for journalism educators at the University of ZambiaElastus Mambwe.