C/O The Danish Union of Journalists
Gl. Strand 46
1202 København
Copenhagen
Danemark
- Media
The organizations overall objective is to increase awareness about the media's role and responsibilities in society, among both the mediapractissioners as well as mediaconsumers. Thus, the aim is to provide information on media coverage in general and contribute to a discussion of the ethics of journalistic work in multiculturel society.
The purpose is twolegged.
Both to inform mediaconsumers about the presse's role, including journalistic practices, routines, editorial cultures and media structures that underlie the media's selection and dissemination of newsstories.
And to contribute to a discussion and debate on the above within the mediapractissioners, including qualifying and nuancing journalistic practices, how to break with stereotypes and focus on journalistic accountability and responsibility.
The objective is pursued by information such as lectures, workshops and debateactivities and seminars as well as lobbyism.
Project: "The presse and the new Danes"
The project is a lecture and workshop series, organized by young Danish journalists with a minority background. Activities a targeting young people in the Danish secondary and high schools and deals with facts, prejudices and fiction in media-related questions about the "new Danes".
The Workshops objective is to equip students with knowledge and tools to analyze the products of journalistic bias, stereotypes and documentation. The goal for the students is to evolve from passive mediaconsumers to active and critical mediaconsumers.
Besides giving examples from there journalistic work, speakers will include their own stories about growing up in Denmark with the ambition to help to change society to the better and working as a journalist with a minority background.
The project is aimed at students from 8th grade in seconary schools to all highschool class' in all over Denmark - both in the immigrant-rich schools in the towns and schools in rural areas where the meeting with a new and alien Dane is not part of everyday life.
The workshops are free and funded by private danish funds.