Centre for Journalism (University of Southern Denmark)

The Centre for Journalism ( Danish Center for Journalism ) University of Southern Denmark is located at the Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences. It is located on the University Campus Odense on the Danish island of Funen and provides research and education in the Department of Journalism at. The center has about 310 students enrolled in bachelor's degree and about 200 students in master's degree programs (as of 2010). Also, do research and teach about 35 scientists and teachers there. Director of the Centre is Peter Bro.

The University of Southern Denmark established, similar to the University of Roskilde, 1998 to break a journalism degree program in response to the political decision, the monopoly of the Danish School of Journalism for the training of journalists in Denmark, thereby increasing the diversity within the art journalism. Since its inception, the center has distinguished itself with a number of innovations, including with the journalists award " The journalistic scholarship ", and the introduction of a journalist oath modeled after the Ärztegelöbnisses.

In addition to training at the Bachelor's and Master's level, it offers professional development and a minor in education that can be combined with a humanities or social science major.

The highest body of the Centre 's Executive Board, which is the chief editor of the daily newspaper Fyens pin Tidende, By Westergård headed.

Students at the Center for Journalism give out the newspaper Lixen.