Have you ever been to the World Journalism Education Congress? What a unique place to meet journalism educators and colleagues from all around the world. Every three years, the international community of journalism education get together to share their best teaching practices and to listen to top-notch research papers, all dedicated to journalism education.

Journalism education is currently facing unprecedented upheavals. After having constantly adapted the curricula since the ‘90s to meet the media industry’s demands, journalism schools now have to face a double challenge; both new expectations of journalism students concerning what should be taught in a journalism school, as well as the actual academic teaching methods themselves.

The Declaration of Freedom of Journalism Education was signed during WJEC Paris on July 10th at the Paris Town Hall. It was signed by Pascal Guénée Director of IPJ Dauphine | PSL & Chairperson of WJEC Paris and Joe Foote, President of the World Journalism Education Council, in the company of Isabelle Huault President of the Université Paris-Dauphine & Marie-Christine Lemardeley Deputy Mayor of Paris.