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ECU Journalism to host International World Congress

Thursday, 28 July 2022

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ECU’s Journalism program, in the School of Arts and Humanities, has won the right to host the 7th World Congress of Journalism Educators (WJEC) in Perth in July 2025.

WJEC 2025 will bring together hundreds of journalism educators from around the world for a three-day conference at The Towers complex in Burswood. The Congress is held every three years, with previous Congresses held in Singapore, Auckland, Paris and Shanghai. Participants will discuss global issues facing journalism practice and education.

The organising committee includes journalism academics from five Universities in Perth together with representatives from several universities in Australia and New Zealand that teach journalism at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Professor Trevor Cullen, Chair of WJEC 2025, said: “This will give a massive boost to journalism education in Perth, in Australia and in New Zealand, and especially to ECU’s journalism and broadcast programs. It brings the world’s educators to beautiful Perth and opens the door for international teaching and research partnerships.”

Associate Professor Alex Wake, President of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia, said: “What a magnificent effort from the journalism team at ECU and the Perth universities more generally. The bid was strongly supported by the national Journalism Associations of Australia and New Zealand”.

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