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Founded in 1365, the University of Vienna (Universität
Wien) is the oldest university in the German-speaking world.
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Journalism
Expands Program to Europe
The Missouri
School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia
and the European Journalism Academy (EJA) at the University
of Vienna have announced a partnership that will bring Missouri
and Central European faculty and students together in learning
and research projects.
“Missouri is delighted to be able to
join in this promising transatlantic collaboration that will link
European and American know-how on the questions of modern journalism,”
said Dean Mills, dean of the Missouri School of Journalism.
EJA University Professor Maximillian Gottschlich
and Mills recently signed the agreement in the presence of the
Mayor of Vienna, Michael Haupl. “This brings Vienna one
big step closer to its goal of being an international media city,”
Haupl noted at the signing ceremony.
A three-semester postgraduate program on journalism
and media practice is being offered. The 23 students who are enrolled
will take more than 1,100 class hours in theory and practice in
interdisciplinary training in print, radio, television and online
journalism. Topics to be covered will include European culture,
economics, ecology, international politics and current history.
Mills said the agreement will allow both short-term
and long-term exchange of faculty and students between the two
institutions. Missouri School of Journalism professor Byron Scott
lectured at EJA earlier this fall, and professor Brian Brooks
has scheduled lectures there early next spring. The two institutions
also anticipate holding joint training programs in Vienna for
journalists from Eastern Europe. Vienna is two hours by car from
both Budapest and Prague.
Founded in 1908, the Missouri School
of Journalism has set the standards for journalism training for
almost a century. The proven “Missouri Method” blends
theory and practice through the university’s own media,
including a community newspaper, a network television station
and a national public radio station.
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November 19, 2007
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