The minutes (main points) of the EJTA Board meeting on 8-9 April can be found in the Forum: http://www.ejta.eu/index.php/forums/

Please also remember to sign up your students for the France24 project.

A Reporter’s Guide to Sports and Olympics reporting is written by Colin McIntyre with contributions from Reuters reporters and former Reuters Sports Editor Steve Parry, who has covered 19 Olympic Games. They guide you through the preparations that will help you, give you an idea of what to expect at the event, warn you of pitfalls, and encourage you to raise your own game as a journalist.

The handbook’s goal has been to cover the wider picture too, by going beyond the Olympics and providing guidance on covering sport in general. There are plenty of useful pointers plus information about websites where additional detail on a variety of sports can be found.

Money raised by the sale of the books supports the work of the foundation, which provides training for journalists, particularly those from developing countries.

Please contact Reuters Foundation for more details: or

TOL will offer summer courses in international reporting, new media and travel writing.

The courses bring together students from around the world, and feature practical training from journalists who have reported for respected media such as the BBC, The Economist, Reuters, The Guardian, CBS and The International Herald Tribune.

Full details are posted on their website: http://journalism-courses.tol.org

The conference ‘Merging Media, Converging Newsrooms’ was organised by, EJTA member, MAZ and the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) and took place in the first week of March.

More information is now available on the MAZ website: http://www.maz.ch/aktuell/news/317.asp

EUROPE‘S NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS OF THE YEAR
20 - 22 April 2008, Vienna, Austria

More more details: http://www.newspaper-congress.eu/

(the full programme is also available on the Forum for EJTA members)

Foreign Correspondents’ Programme in Finland in 2008

All information is available on: http://formin.finland.fi/services/media/fc

Closing date for applications is 3 March 2008

Message from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong

Think Global: Get your master’s degree in journalism in Asia.

One of the world’s premier graduate journalism programmes is in the heart of Asia at The University of Hong Kong. Our international faculty comes from the world’s leading newsrooms and universities, including the New York Times, The Hindu, the Far Eastern Economic Review, The Wall Street Journal, Asiaweek, Yazhou Zhoukan, BBC, STAR TV, ABC News, Columbia University, Northwestern University and Harvard.

You’ll meet the region’s top newsmakers and hear prominent journalists from the Associated Press, Time magazine, CNN, Bloomberg, the International Herald Tribune, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, Business Weekly (Taiwan), Apple Daily, Phoenix TV, Ming Pao, Sing Tao, Caijing Magazine, the South China Morning Post, The Standard (Hong Kong), and many other news organizations.

In addition, our internship programme provides opportunities to work in China, the U.S. and throughout Asia. More details can be found at http://jmsc.hku.hk

Application Deadline: 29 February 2008 . Details at http://jmsc.hku.hk

Enquiries: Professor Ying Chan, Director, Journalism and Media Studies Centre
E-mail: /
Tel: (852) 2859 1155 Fax: (852) 2858 8736

The EJTA will organise a meeting for its Mid Career Group on 20/21 January in Lisbon, Portugal. The event will be hosted by EJTA member Cenjor.

Participants will be:
- Marianne Peters, EJTA President, the Netherlands
- Annelie Ewers, FOJO, Sweden
- Fernando Cascais, Cenjor, Portugal
- Wilfried Ruetten, EJC, the Netherlands

(after the event more information will be made available to EJTA members)

Interesting co-operation and mobility scheme in the area of higher education:

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/extcoop/call/index.htm

The link to the news show from the Play The Game conference in Iceland, produced by the international TV-class, Danish School of Journalism (EJTA member) is:

http://www.thepulse2007.org/?page_id=28

See also: http://www.thepulse2007.org/ the main website, produced by the online-class

Writing About Refugees: A Competition for Student Journalists

Across Europe the migration debate is now front-page news.  On an almost daily basis pictures and articles are published focusing on the numbers of asylum seekers seeking refuge.  Not all the information given about these individuals is true.  What is true is that access to European asylum procedures is getting more and more difficult.  Border fences are higher, patrols on the Mediterranean Sea have been intensified and officials at airports and ports prevent individuals leaving their country of origin. 

The Jesuit Refugee Service is inviting aspiring journalists to investigate the reality behind the headlines by asking students across Europe to write an article on the theme.

For more details about the rules, the deadline and the prizes: http://www.jrseurope.org

We are pleased to introduce you to our four new members:

- Mondragon University (HUHEZI)
- University of Southern Denmark (CfJ)
- Vytautas Magnus University
- XIOS Hogeschool Limburg

(contact details can be found in the Members section)

The EJTA is a partner in the Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme

COMMUNICATE - COOPERATE

which aims to develop an online training course for young professionals / graduates of mass media / communication schools and science departments on the communication of risk related scientific information.

The long-term aim of the project will be to develop the communication skills of scientists and communicators / journalists in order to enhance the dialogue and cooperation amongst them, and improve overall communication with civil society and the general public.

Other partners in the project are: Intercollege, Atlantis Consulting, European Journalism Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the National Institute of Chemistry, ZIRN (University Stuttgart) and OPW.

End of the project: 30 October 2008 (21 months)