[ecrea] The Future of Journalism 2013

The Future of Journalism:
In an age of digital media and economic uncertainty


Thursday 12th and Friday 13th September 2013
CARDIFF, UNIVERSITY, UK

Call for Papers





Following the success of the conferences in 2007, 2009 and 2011, we are 
delighted to announce that the fourth in this series of biennial 
research-based conferences - to be hosted by the Cardiff School of 
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) and sponsored by 
Routledge Taylor and Francis - will focus again on the topic: The Future 
of Journalism.



The plenary speaker will be:



Professor Robert G. Picard



Robert Picard is a distinguished and world- leading specialist on media 
economics and Director of Research at The Reuters Institute for the 
Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author and 
editor of more than 20 books including Media Clusters: Spatial 
Agglomeration and Content Capabilities (2011); and Value Creation and 
the Future of News Organisations: Why and How Journalism must Change to 
Remain Relevant in the Twenty–First Century (2010). He is the editor of 
The Journal of Media Business Studies and the founding editor of The 
Journal of Media Economics. The subject of his plenary lecture will be:

Funding the Future of Journalism



Professor Picard’s plenary lecture will be published in special issues 
of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies, along 
with a selection of the research-based papers presented at the conference.



This call for papers invites contributions from the international 
community of scholars of journalism studies, journalism practitioners, 
citizen journalists, educators and trainers, media executives, trade 
unionists and media regulators. Papers focused on any aspect of the 
broad theme, The Future of Journalism are welcome, although they should 
address at least one of the five key conference themes



Journalism practice and digital media technologies - how are 
developments in media technologies shaping a new journalism practice, 
especially novel routines for the production and reporting of news using 
social media and mobile devices, and by an expansive community of 
bloggers and citizen journalists?



Global journalism developments - how are these changes in all aspects of 
the gathering, reporting and consumption of news, unravelling in 
different national settings with their distinctive journalism cultures, 
audiences, media structures and histories?



Business models and funding a viable journalism - what are the 
implications of these changes for the revenues traditionally available 
to fund journalism and what business models are emerging (for example, 
levies, crowdsourcing the use of pay walls) to resource newly emerging 
forms of journalism in an increasingly digital economy?



Journalism professionalism - what are the implications of these 
developments in journalism for the education, training and employment of 
journalists, as well as journalists’ changing perceptions of their 
professional roles and identity?



Journalism, democracy and ethics - in what ways do these changes impact 
on journalism’s wider connections with the political and democratic life 
of communities locally, regionally, nationally and internationally?



Titles and abstracts for papers (250 words max) are invited by Friday 
4th January 2013 and should be submitted online at:

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/conference/futureofjournalism/submission/.











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