[ecrea] 2018 CMDS Summer School "Funding Journalism in the Digital Age"

2018 CMDS Summer School on "Funding Journalism in the Digital Age"

The Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy of 
Central European University invites applications to its practice-based 
2018 summer course on "Funding Journalism in the Digital Age" to be held 
at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary on July 2-6, 2018.

The biggest challenge to media freedom and independent journalism today 
is the systemic political corruption in which private interests shape 
the decision-making process in state bodies and institutions. 
Increasingly, a model of captive, politically instrumentalized news 
media financed by owners, corporations, social and political groups, or 
governments, is becoming dominant in most parts of the world. This has 
significant consequences on independent media and journalism.

Probably the most severe crisis journalism has been facing in the past 
decade is the funding crisis. The old business model in journalism has 
collapsed. News media outlets are feverishly testing subscription and 
membership models alongside with new advertising models. They 
increasingly rely on funding from philanthropies to keep doing public 
service journalism, which is not commercially viable.

The aim of this practice-based course is to provide participants 
(journalists and media practitioners, and researchers and academics 
writing about these issues) with in-depth understanding of the main 
changes in funding journalism, including the key areas of growth and the 
fastest expanding players in media and journalism as well as the role 
funding plays in capturing independent media.

In order to maximize the output and opportunities for participants the 
course will have a maximum of 20 participants.

The tuition fee for the summer course is EUR 550. Early bird 
participants pay EUR 500.

Apply by March 11, 2018 at the following link: 
https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/journalism-2018



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