Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

About the FOJ 2009 Conference

The field leading journals Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice are holding the second biennial conference sponsored by Routledge Taylor and Francis and hosted by the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC).

Editor of Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice, Bob Franklin, "We have received over 300 papers this time from 47 different countries and have attracted some of the most distinguished scholars within the journalism studies field".

Following the successful, inaugural conference held in September 2007, this conference is focused on the future of journalism with contributions from the international community of academics, along with newspaper executives, trade unionists, journalists and regulators.

The environments in which journalists work - across the various media platforms of print, radio, television and online - are changing rapidly in response to innovations in technology, increasingly competitive and fragmenting markets for readers and audiences, government media policy and changing audience requirements for news and the ways in which it is presented and delivered.

These changes are impacting on journalists’ employment, their perceptions of their professional roles, their professional values and their day-to-day journalism practice.

A growing army of citizen journalists now deliver copy for all media platforms, while new media technologies, the changing structures of the global news industries, combined with more competitive markets for advertising revenues are changing radically the ways in which journalism organisations and media businesses function.

In these fast-moving times, journalism faces huge challenges and opportunities, although these are shaped, given additional impetus and direction, or slowed down by the distinctive journalism cultures and markets which prevail in different regions of the world.

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