I have been teaching my entire adult life; I started as a media teacher at an upper secondary school when I turned 20. Still, I have always strictly identified myself as a media, journalism and…
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There are not many working days left until the seasonal holidays, but I managed to squeeze in a small trip to the Baltics in my schedule. UNESCO invited me to be a keynote speaker at…
Last week, my intensive week in Stockholm culminated with the opportunity to announce a new thesis competition for students in higher education. The Sweden-Finnish Delegation introduced a thesis competition, with an amount of 10 000…
The NordMedia23 Doctoral Pre-Conference in mid-August marked the end of my summer vacation. Admittedly, I had nothing against continuing my holidays, but I must say that the day we spent together with the Nordic junior…
When I was commissioned by UNESCO and the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) to edit a handbook on reporting about artificial intelligence (AI), the general awareness of AI was rather low. It is amazing how…
My textbook in journalism, Hyvä journalismi [Good journalism], turns 10 years this year. It’s hard to believe that I wrote it already a decade ago – and, at the same time, it was only ten…
This year’s intensive course for Swedish and Finnish journalism students had energy journalism as its theme. The intensive course, organized at Hanaholmen, the cultural centre for Sweden and Finland, is part of a course programme…
Below is the cover image of the brand new upper-secondary-school textbook Jukola that will come out at SanomaPro later this month. This course book will start a new series in the discipline of the Finnish language and literature at upper secondary schools….
A couple of terms ago, I organised a webinar on journalist interns’ learning experiences in co-operation with an other journalism education institution in Finland. The idea was to gather speakers from two universities, Tampere and Jyväskylä, to tell…
There are many convincing reasons for why academics should blog (you can see some arguments here, here and here), tweet (see here, here and here), be available at LinkedIn (here, here and here), or Academia.edu, or…