Journalism training hardly promotes social responsibility
Volume 13 of the HWZ Series, titled «Journalism Education between Market Dependence and Social Responsibility,» has just been published. In it, HWZ senior lecturer and author Hugo Bigi examines how part-time journalism education affects the quality and democracy-promoting functions of contemporary journalism.
His research shows how a training system close to the media industry improves the employability of young journalists. This was reported by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences HWZ in a press release issued on Wednesday. The research paper also explains how the same training system provides them with a basis for self-interested behavior, but does little to promote a sense of social responsibility.
