The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is an independent,

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institute, based in

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...

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, The

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Operations

Its aim is to give further training to mid-career

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and media professionals. The institute also acts a partner and organiser at the European level for media companies, professional organisations, journalism schools and government bodies seeking to establish activities and projects. For an extensive research project on food worldwide, Dutch newspaper

de Volkskrant ''de Volkskrant'' (; ''The People's Paper'') is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized c ...

was given the ''European Publishers' Long-term Reporting Grant''. The EJC was financed for this grant by the

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was l ...

. They run the DataDrivenJournalism.net project which is acknowledged as a leading source of information about data driven journalism, and coordinated the Data Journalism Handbook, along with

The Open Knowledge Foundation Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data. It was founded by Rufus Pollock on 20 May 2004 in Cambridge, UK. It is incorporated in England an ...

. Its director, since 2016 is Adam Thomas. In 2017, European Journalism Centre launched 'The News Impact' programme, an attempt to assemble hands-on professionals who may be able to tutor future journalists, on the grounds of innovation, tools of journalism as well as technology. This program, which usually consists of multiple annual events is powered by

Google News Initiative The Google News Lab is a global team at Google whose mission is to "collaborate with journalists and entrepreneurs to help build the future of media". Launched in 2015, the team works with news organizations to help drive innovation, address indus ...

. Former director, 2006–2016, was Wilfried Ruetten, also board member of the

Global Editors Network The Global Editors Network (GEN) was an international association of over 6,000 editors-in-chief and media executives with the mission of fostering digital innovation in newsrooms all over the world. GEN had three main programmes: Editors Lab, t ...

since April 2011. He was previously the head of digital television at the

University of Applied Sciences A university of applied sciences (UAS), nowadays much less commonly called a polytechnic university or vocational university, is an institution of higher education and sometimes research that provides vocational education and grants academic de ...

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, and has worked in German public and private broadcasting as a reporter and producer ( ARD,

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...) as well as in journalism education.

References

External links

* , the centre's official website *European Centre for Digital Communicatio

*Crossroads, web magazine for expatriates in Maastricht, published by the European Journalism Centr

*

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