Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Back in 2015 everyone in the field of journalism was grappling with a media landscape that presented significant and fast-paced challenges, for better and worse. Digitalisation had created free and open access to online media, new audiences, storytelling possibilities, better options to gain and trace information, but also an unregulated internet with little privacy protection and a dark (hidden) online reality; all steered by technological developments (Digital News Report, Reuters 2015). Journalism educators struggled to adapt their curricula in time: change was the new normal (Lynch, 2015). It was however evident from, for example, the unprecedented growth of fake news that teaching advanced verification and fact-checking would be essential for the professional future of young journalists.
DOI: 10.31378/jehc.227
Authors: Carien Touwen, Elvira Van Noort
Institution: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Language: English
Topic: Journalism and Media Studies
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410162563