[ecrea] Seminar on Journalist Interns, November, University of Copenhagen

Studying journalist interns



Seminar and workshop at the University of Copenhagen 27th – 28th 
November 2014



Theme

When educating new journalists, an important part of the training takes 
place when the journalist students do their internship. In this 
socialisation process, what the students learn, and what values are 
either enforced, reinforced or abandoned, is crucial to the future of 
educating journalists and the future of journalism. Yet, we do not know 
much about the process as a whole: From when the students enter the 
journalism education to the stage at which they practice journalism 
professionally.



The goal of the seminar is to bring together Nordic and European 
journalism researchers and journalism educators to share knowledge on 
the topic of interns as part of journalism education.

We aim to establish a network of scholars and practitioners with a 
specific interest in studying and educating journalist students and 
interns, in gaining knowledge about their self-understanding, their 
perceptions of their jobs and education, the socialisation processes 
they find themselves in, their professional knowledge and professional 
practice – and other interesting topics concerning internships.



These areas have not received that much attention so far within 
journalism research. We hope to change this by offering a venue for 
networking and discussing research, theory and practice. Especially, we 
welcome cross-disciplinary research and projects using mixed methods. 
Hopefully, this can create possibilities for future seminars and 
collaborations across boarders – geographical borders as well as 
theoretical and methodological ones.



Read more: http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/studying-journalist-interns/



This event at the University of Copenhagen will be a mixture of 
presentations (20 minutes talk and 10 minutes for discussion), plenaries 
from researchers and practitioners, and workshops focusing on both the 
topic for the seminar and on future research and collaboration 
possibilities. Please see the full program below.



If you wish to forward this invitation to others, who take an interest 
in the field, please do not hesitate to do so.

Participation

The number of participants for this seminar is limited to 30 people. 
Therefore, you have to send us an e-mail before Friday 15th of August, 
if you would like to participate. Please describe your affiliation and 
write 7-10 lines about why you would like to participate in the seminar. 
If you would also like to do a presentation about your research on 
journalist interns or on your experience educating them, please also 
send us an abstract of 250-300 words.



Deadline for e-mails (with or without abstracts) is Friday 15th of August.

At the end of August, we will let you know who is taking part in the 
seminar, and who is doing presentations.

There is no participation fee, as the University of Copenhagen and the 
University of Southern Denmark are financing the seminar itself. Also, 
lunch, fruit, coffee, and cake during the two days are complimentary. 
You just need to pay for dinner at the restaurant Thursday night, and of 
course for your travel expenses and hotel.





Program



Thursday 27th November

10.30-11.00: Arrival and coffee

11.00-12.00: Welcome, program and introduction of participants

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-14.00: Presentations (2)

14.00-14.20: Break

14.20-15.20: Invited presentation – from the researcher’s point of view: 
Hugo Bigi

15.20-15.40: Break

15.40-16.40: Presentations (2)

16.40-17.00: Break

17.00-18.00: Workshop: Why do we study interns? And does it matter?

19.00 : Dinner, restaurant in Copenhagen City





Friday 28th November

08.30-09.00: Good morning and coffee

09.00-10.00: Presentations (2)

10.00-10.15: Break

10.15-11.15: Invited presentation – from the practitioner’s point of 
view: Maria Becher Trier

11.15-11.30: Break

11.30-12.30: Presentations (2)

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-14.30: Workshop: Future research possibilities

14:30 : Networking opportunities and departure





Invited presentations



Hugo Bigi: Journalism Education between Market Dependence and Social 
Responsibility

Thursday 27th, 14.20 – 15.20



Hugo Bigi, senior lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences HWZ 
Zurich, Switzerland, has recently published the book: “Journalism 
Education between Market Dependence and Social Responsibility. An 
Examination of Trainee Journalists”. This presentation will focus on the 
main points from this book and discuss the impact of journalism training 
on journalists’ experiences of their occupation and its implications for 
the news industry in the present volatile economic environment. It 
examines to what extent training empowers current journalists to adapt 
to the fast changing news world in order to guarantee the improvement of 
journalistic quality and to further serve a vital democratic function on 
our society.



Maria Becher Trier: Educating the supervisors of journalist interns

Friday 28th November, 10.15 – 11.15



Maria Becher Trier works as a journalist for Folkeskolen, The Public 
School, an independent magazine, published by the Danish Union of 
Teachers. She has engaged herself in improving the experience of 
internship for the students, supervisors and the work place. She was one 
of the initiators of a Danish education for the supervisors for 
journalist interns. The education is run within the Danish Union of 
Journalists. In 2012, Maria Becher Trier with her colleague won the 
prize as best intern supervisor of the year. This prize is given by the 
journalists interns, who each year nominate and elect a candidate, who 
has excelled as a supervisor.





Venue

University of Copenhagen, building 27, room 27.0.09





If you have any questions regarding this seminar or regarding your stay 
in Copenhagen please do not hesitate to contact us.



We hope to see you in Copenhagen in November!





Best regards



Gitte Gravengaard, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics
Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Telephone: +45 61 66 31 09/ +45 38 11 31 09
E-mail: (gravengaard /at/ hum.ku.dk)



Lene Rimestad, Journalist, PhD student
Centre for Journalism, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Telephone: +45 20 58 50 52
E-mail: (lri /at/ journalism.sdu.dk)





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