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[ecrea] Statistics in Journalism Practice and Education: A Cross-Atlantic Comparison of best practices and approaches
Mon Nov 04 08:16:31 GMT 2013
Statistics in Journalism Practice and Education:
A Cross-Atlantic Comparison of best practices and approaches
January 31st and February 1st, 2014
Arts Tower, Lecture Theatre 7,
University of Sheffield, UK
This event is sponsored by
* HE Academy,
* The Faculty of Social Science, University of Sheffield, UK,
* Royal Statistics Society
* Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
* Association of Journalism Education, UK
This one-day seminar will discuss and examine different approaches to
teaching journalism students how to gather, interpret and communicate
statistics. The seminar will bring together academics and experts from
Europe and the US to discuss and exchange pedagogical experiences
regarding teaching statistics in the field of journalism studies. The
event aims at allowing the participants to exchange experiences and
approaches in the teaching of statistics in journalism studies. In so
doing, it will facilitate the examination of existing provisions in the
European and US curriculum among HE institutions that teach journalism
at an UG level. The seminar will also allow us to explore methods of
assessment and evaluation as well as other pedagogical practices from a
cross-national comparative perspective. The idea is to learn from these
experiences and provide common ground from which journalist educators
can develop and improve existing provisions for the teaching of
statistics to journalism students.
Proposed programme
Day One
09:30 am – Registration and Coffee
10:00 am – Welcome, Ralph Negrine, HoD of Journalism Studies, University
of Sheffield
10:10 am – Ethics and Statistics in the News, Professor Chris Frost,
Chair of the Association of Journalism Education (AJE).
11:00 am – Teaching Numbers to Journalism Students, Paul Voakes, School
of Journalism, Indiana University (USA).
12:00 am – Statistic in Science Communication. An Nguyen, Bournemouth
University (UK)
13:00 pm – Lunch
14:00 pm – The National Statistics Training Programme for Journalists -
Scott Keir, Head of Education and Statistical Literacy, Royal
Statistical Society (UK)
15:10 pm – Panel/Papers – Round 1
16:10 pm – Days closes
Day Two
09:30 am – Coffee
10:00 am – Why statistics should be part of the methods of inquiry for
all journalists? Professor Saviour Chircop, University of Malta.
11:00 am – Teaching stats to people who don’t like maths. Jairo
Lugo-Ocando, University of Sheffield (UK)
12:00 pm – 15:10 pm – Panel/Papers – Round 2
13:00 pm – Closing of the Event
Speakers
Professor Chris Frost, Liverpool John Moores University and Chair of the
Association of Journalism Education (AJE)
Professor Chris Frost, the Head of Journalism at Liverpool John Moores
University, was a newspaper journalist and editor until he moved into
education more than 15 years ago. His research interests include media
ethics and he has considerable experience in this field having served on
the UK Press Council and as a long-term member of the National Union of
Journalists Ethics Council. He has served on the NUJ’s National
Executive Council for many years and was NUJ President in 1992. He
chairs the Union’s Ethics Council which debates journalism ethics and
has a role in educating NUJ members. He has given evidence to the UK
House of Commons select committee on press regulation on several
occasions, and also at the high-profile Leveson Inquiry. He is immediate
past chair of the Association for Journalism Education, which represents
most schools of journalism in UK and Ireland HE institutions. He has
published widely and regularly speaks at international conferences.
Professor Paul S. Voakes, Journalism and Mass Communication University
of Colorado at Boulder (USA).
Paul S. Voakes has been a professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
at CU since 2003. He served as dean of the program from 2003 to June,
2011. Voakes came to CU after nine years on the faculty of the Indiana
University School of Journalism. His Ph.D. is from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, and his research and teaching specializations are
in digital media law and ethics, digital news writing, reporting and
editing, and math/statistics for journalism. Before entering academia in
1990 he had been a journalist for 15 years at newspapers in the San
Francisco Bay Area, most recently as an op-ed columnist for the San Jose
Mercury News. In the summer of 2000 he was a political reporter at the
Portland Oregonian as an American Society of Newspaper Editors Fellow.
He has published his research in Journalism & Mass Communication
Quarterly, The Journal of Mass Media Ethics, The Newspaper Research
Journal, Communications Law & Policy and other academic journals. He is
the author of The Newspaper Journalists of the ’90s (ASNE, 1997), a
co-author of Working with Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for
Journalists (2005), and a co-author of The American Journalist in the
21st Century, which received the 2007 Book Award from the Society of
Professional Journalists (SPJ). He was the winner of the 1995
Nafziger-White Award (top doctoral dissertation in journalism/mass
communication) and won numerous teaching awards at Indiana. He is
currently Faculty Director of CU’s Digital News Test Kitchen.
An Nguyen, Bournemouth University (UK)
An Duc Nguyen is an internationally recognised scholar with research
expertise in online journalism, news audiences, citizen journalism,
science journalism, and the globalization of news in developing
countries. An has authored a book, The Penetration of Online News, and
two dozen papers in prestigious journals and books. He is in the final
stage of a second book, Numbers for the News: Statistics for Journalists
(with Jairo Lugo) and the early stage of another, Science News and the
Public (with Steve McIlwaine). He is among the most cited authors of the
world's top two journalism journals, Journalism Studies and Journalism,
according to Google Scholar Metrics. An has taught in five British and
Australian universities. Prior to Bournemouth, he led journalism at the
University of Sussex. Before Sussex, he taught journalism and media at
the University of Stirling, where he co-founded and co-directed its
successful Vietnam-based MSc in Media and Communications Management. A
former Vietnamese journalist and an Australian-educated journalism
scholar, An has been an examiner of journalism output, draft policy,
journal articles, book proposals, research dissertations and grant
applications for academic, industrial and governmental organisations
around the world. Among recent non-academic users of his expertise are
the Broadcasting Board of Governors (US Government), Radio Free Asia,
and the World Federation of Science Journalists. An serves on the
Editorial Board of Journalism Education, the journal of the UK
Association for Journalism Education. He is the External Examiner of the
MSc in Science Communication at the University of Sheffield. An also
frequently engages with non-academic audiences on media and development
issues, having been invited to deliver many public and industrial
lectures in various countries. He appears in expert interviews and
writes commentary pieces for news outlets, especially those in Vietnam.
Professor Saviour Chircop, University of Malta.
Professor Saviour Chircop is head of the Department of Media &
Communications and Dean of the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences.
He specialises in the areas of communication, instructional design, and
media evaluation. Prof. Chircop has designed and directed a number of
research projects both locally and internationally in the areas of
education, broadcasting and evaluation. He has presented and published
research in the area of methodology and evaluation primarily in the USA.
Among his research interests he includes human communication,
instructional design, facility design, corporate reputation, and
perspective-taking. His current research focuses on knowledge inquiry
and journalism, looking at the use of statistical data in the
development of news stories.
Scott Keir, Royal Statistical Society (UK)
Scott Keir is the Head of Education and Statistical Literacy at the
Royal Statistical Society. He has oversight of public event programme,
scientific conference programme, awards, book prizes and media and
communication skills courses. His responsibilities include financial and
staff management, sponsor liaison, developing and maintaining
relationships with project partners and special projects. He has a
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons) in Computer Science from the University
of Edinburgh (UK). Scott Keir has been working in science communication
since 1997, covering a wide range of subjects and styles, to a variety
of audiences. Current projects include: assisting in the Royal Society
Science in Society programme, project-managing the Aventis Prizes for
Science Books, and providing administration support to the R&D Society.
Previously, Scott has worked for Copus, Maths Year 2000 Scotland, and
was a freelance writer and website developer. He is also currently a
trustee in The Dennis Rosen Memorial Trust that promotes science in the UK.
Jairo Lugo-Ocando, University of Sheffield (UK)
Jairo Lugo-Ocando has worked as a reporter, staff-writer and chief
sub-editor for several newspapers in Venezuela. He has also been
correspondent for newspapers, magazines and radio stations in Venezuela,
Colombia, Mexico and the United States. He sits on the advisory board of
the Asylum Positive Image Project run by OXFAM-GB. He has been invited
to lecture at the Universidad Catolica Andres Bellos (Venezuela), IQRA
University (Pakistan) and the University of Columbia (USA) among other
institutions. His research interests include media and democratisation
in South America and digital technologies in the developing world and
statistics in the construction of news stories. His current research
specialises in the use of statistics by journalists in their reporting
of crime, poverty and development. He is author of several publications
and developed two years ago what is currently the only undergraduate
module on statistics for journalists in the United Kingdom.
Call for papers:
Statistics in Journalism Practice and Education:
A Cross-Atlantic Comparison of best practices and approaches
January 31st to February 1^st , 2014
University of Sheffield, UK
This two-day seminar will discuss and examine different approaches to
teaching journalism students how to gather, interpret and communicate
statistics. The seminar will bring together academics and experts from
Europe and the US to discuss and exchange pedagogical experiences
regarding teaching statistics in the field of journalism studies. The
event aims at allowing the participants to exchange experiences and
approaches in the teaching of statistics in journalism studies. In so
doing, it will facilitate the examination of existing provisions in the
European and US curriculum among HE institutions that teach journalism
at an UG level. The seminar will also allow us to explore methods of
assessment and evaluation as well as other pedagogical practices from a
cross-national comparative perspective. The idea is to learn from these
experiences and provide common ground from which journalist educators
can develop and improve existing provisions.
Speakers include
* Teaching Numbers to Journalism Students, Paul Voakes, School of
Journalism, Indiana University (USA).
* Ethics and Statistics in the News, Professor Chris Frost, Chair
of the Association of Journalism Education (AJE).
* Why statistics should be part of the methods of inquiry for all
journalists? Professor Saviour Chircop, University of Malta
* Statistic in Science Communication. An Nguyen, Bournemouth,
University (UK)
* Teaching stats to people who don’t like maths. Jairo Lugo-Ocando,
University of Sheffield (UK)
* The National Statistics Training Programme for Journalists -
Scott Keir, Head of Education and Statistical Literacy, Royal
Statistical Society (UK)
Possible topics include but are not limited to;
1) Statistics in science news
2) Reporting crime statistics
3) Reporting polls and surveys
4) Economic and business statistics in the news
5) Uses of statistics in investigative journalism
6) Ethics, statistics and news
7) Qualitative methods and journalism
8) Precision journalism
We expect to be able to publish the best papers in an academic
publication by 2015. Abstracts should be no longer that 350 words and
should be send to: (j.lugo-ocando /at/ stir.ac.uk) before the 30th of November
2013. The event is free and open to the public.
Free registrations for this event at:
http://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=21&prodid=215
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