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Journalism students from FHWien der WKW have been meeting with students from various European countries in Vienna and the western Ukrainian city of Lviv (Lemberg) in order to exchange ideas and learn from each other for five years. What began as an experiment has developed into a model for the future of multimedia journalism: a best-practice example for the exchange… […]Read more on Five years of intercultural exchange: Austrian-Ukrainian journalism project “International School of Multimedia Journalism”, FHWien der WKW celebrates jubilee

"Dream job sports reporter?" For all participants of our Summer Workshop the question mark would have to be replaced by an exclamation mark. They all have one main goal: to report about points, meters and seconds. Divided into the two main areas of print/online and TV/video, the participants had the opportunity to conduct interviews with (ex-)professional sportsmen and sportswomen and… […]Read more on Exciting Insights into Theory and Practice at the First Sports Journalism Workshop at FHWien der WKW

From April, 1 - 3 2019, eighteen Bachelor's and Master's students from the Study Programs Journalism & Media Management travelled to Brussels for a study trip financed by the EU. Under the direction of Wolfgang Böhm (EU Head of Department at "Die Presse"), the students explored the center of the EU. […]Read more on Brussels calling – Study trip to the heart of the European Union

From June, 2 – 8, 2019 five students from FHWien der WKW took part in the international radio project “EU On Air” which took place in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on the topic of Food Culture and their Spaces. The task of the students was to research topics on site and implement them as radio features, which were broadcasted live… […]Read more on Journalism students with radio project “EU On Air” in Georgia

Oliver Ortner (ORF 2 Channelmanagement) was guest speaker on March 18, 2019 at the new lecture series initiated by the study area “Journalism & Media Management” […]Read more on “Media Literacy vs. Fake News” – second Public Value Lecture in cooperation with Austrian Public Service Media (ORF) at FHWien der WKW

For the research project "Allah", the students of the Master's program "Journalism & New Media" dealt in detail with the subject of religion and faith. […]Read more on Project presentation: Master students give insight into stories of faith

For the fifth time the International School of Multimedia Journalism (ISMJ) took place in February in cooperation with the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv. Twenty students from Denmark, Georgia, Ukraine and Austria worked for one week on multimedia reports on this year's topic "Social Responsibility". […]Read more on Jubilee at the 5th International School of Multimedia Journalism 2019

The conference of the prestigious ECREA  (European Communication Research and Education Association) with a focus on Journalism took place at the University of Vienna on February 14 and 15, 2019. About 120 researchers from 25 different countries worldwide participated at the conference, and presented and discussed various perspectives and developments dealing with Journalism. Core Findings […]Read more on Paper Presentation by Gisela Reiter at the international ECREA Journalism Studies Conference

Günter Ogris (SORA Institute) was a guest speaker at the study program “Journalism and Mediamanagement” […]Read more on Public Value Lecture: “Media & Democracy“ in cooperation with Austrian Public Service Media (ORF) at FHWien der WKW

On November 14, 2018, the Department of Communication of FHWien der WKW University of Applied Sciences hosted a panel discussion on “Blurring lines between Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising” […]Read more on Panel discussion “blurring lines between Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising”