Truth and wisdom in Journalism. Media and social change. The event will address the diverse challenges facing contemporary media and journalists and provide a platform for debate and exchange of experiences. It is a multidisciplinary media event designed for students, journalists and public at large. Influential Kosovarian and international media academics, experts and journalists will deliver speeches followed by discussions. The aim is to discuss the new phenomena arising through the developments of the digital technology and how these phenomena are affecting the work of journalists and the social changes. The focus will be on the challenges that journalists are…

EFJ Annual Meeting in Bucharest #EFJBucharest17

The EFJ is encouraging to register for the Dataharvest/EIJC, the European Investigative Journalism Conference organised by Journalismfund.eu, the most relevant networking event for investigative and data journalists in Europe. The European Investigative Journalism & Dataharvest Conference, organised by Journalismfund.eu, will take place in Mechelen, Belgium from 19 – 21 May for the most interesting edition yet! #EIJC17 & Dataharvest offers hugely inspiring investigative journalism cases, ample opportunities to meet interesting colleagues and coders, and tons of training sessions to brush up your skills hands-on. Check out our preliminary programme. This is the one conference you do not want to miss! Register now. Also don’t forget to take a look at our pre-conference activities on the 18th of May! – Come to the conference…

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is organizing a workshop about best practices on organising and defending self-employed workers. Speakers will discuss new protection for self-employed workers in Europe and talk about the reality and the trade union challenges in Poland. Topics on the agenda also include the opportunities and obstacles for the trade union movement in the organisation of self-employed workers, like organising workers from platforms (for example the case of UBER in France) and organising self-employed workers in the artistic sectors in Finland. Speakers will be mapping opportunities and barriers for trade unions to organise self-employed workers and…

The journalism practice training is jointly organised by the Croatian Journalists' Association and the EFJ, in the framework of the Media Against Hate project. More information here.

from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union