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50 years of focus on journalism
The Nordic Journalist Centre is holding a conference to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The event, in Århus 24-25 October, will look to the future as well as back at the last half century. NJC brings together media workers from all over the Nordic Region – Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Åland and Greenland – for in-service training and seminars.
The speakers at the conference in Varna near Århus will include the director of the Regional Press Institute in St. Petersburg, Anna Sharogradskaya, who has worked with the NJC, helping to teach journalists in North-West Russia, for several years.
She will be joined by representatives of the Arab TV station Al Jazeera, several experts in Nordic journalism as well as some of the cream of the Nordic media industry, who will present their visions of the journalism of the future.
"The conference will show that we really HAVE a unique, common tradition of a free press in the Nordic Region, a tradition we should constantly remind each other of. There are many reasons to celebrate the Nordic Journalist Centre," says its manager, Steen K. Rasmussen.
The national press organisations from the Nordic countries set up the NJC in 1957 with the support of the Nordic Council. It was based in Vennelystparken in Århus, where the journalism courses of the day were held at the University of Aarhus (later the Danish School of Journalism). In the early years, NJC was known as the Nordic Journalist Course. After a turbulent period, the NJC is now part of UPDATE – Centre for Professional Development in Journalism – at the Danish School of Journalism until 2009.
