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See the schedule for the AJE 2025 Summer Conference on ‘Celebrating Journalism’ at the University of Derby

Caroline Jones

Event: Celebrating Journalism: Why it matters, how it adapts and the need for journalism education in a changing world

Dates: Thursday, June 26, and Friday, June 27, 2025

Location: University of Derby

Registration has now closed for this event.

Details: Journalism matters. It matters in our communities, in our culture, in our politics and in our lifestyles.

In a world where authoritarianism is on the rise and tolerance is in decline, to say nothing of attacks on journalists and journalism, there has never been such an abundance of creative, inspiring and useful storytelling across a myriad of platforms and spaces.

AJE UK believes it is time to celebrate this with a conference that enables journalism educators to share and explore their practice and research highlighting the ways in which journalism endures crisis and continues to play an important part in all of our lives.

Papers and presentations at the conference on this wide-ranging theme will cast a light on the positive elements of news and journalism and how this is articulated in journalism education.

There will also be two fantastic keynote speakers – Franz Wild, Editor of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Tony Harcup, Emeritus Fellow at The University of Sheffield. The full AJE Summer Conference 2025 programme can be found here.

Themes which will be explored during the conference:

  • Lifestyle & cultural journalism and how it contributes to our lives;
  • Sports journalism and its importance to communities;
  • Social justice journalism;
  • Climate reporting;
  • Solutions journalism that can solve some of the problems of our world;
  • Importance of local media to local democracy;
  • Alternative media and giving space to marginalised voices;
  • The rise and rise of the podcast;
  • Pedagogical approaches: how we bring our passion for journalism into our learning and teaching;
  • Creativity in journalism teaching and practice;
  • AI: the opportunities it will bring;
  • Re-defining journalism for a changed world;
  • Investigative reporting: new models, methods and technologies for scrutinising power;
  • The importance of ethical journalism.