This website features the work of students participating in the Masters level Erasmus Mundus journalism program at the Danish School of Media and Journalism and the Aarhus University. The course, in Analytic Journalism, focuses on sharpening reporting and analytic skills to enable journalists to communicate their perspective on complex international issues with narrative clarity.
We focused on two broad subject areas: climate change, which is presenting unprecedented challenges to the global community, and international justice, which we interpret as the application of one country’s public policies and judicial principles to other countries, such as immigration, labor rights, global health, and the prosecution of war criminals.
In both areas, tensions are acute, placing new stresses on the established international order - making it ideal terrain for journalistic inquiry. Our goal was to help facilitate the development of journalistic skills that would assist journalists to become ‘navigators’ and interpreters of this increasingly complex international terrain.
Here we feature the work of forty students, from more than twenty countries, who brought the world into our classroom with their final exams in the spring of 2012. Their journalistic experiences ranged widely, from local newspapers to national television, news websites and radio.
From an analysis of the impact commodity speculation has on food prices, to the efforts of UK retailers to assign a carbon footprint to food, to the impacts of illegal fishing on a West African fishing village, and a critical assessment of the Rio + 20 negotiations, the stories here provide a glimpse into the issues of environmental security and international justice that are playing out in different parts of the world.
Mark Schapiro and Flemming Svith, the professors
