Dates: 23-24 October 2025
The academic and educational world is facing a change in the roles and functions journalists traditionally perform in society and in media companies. Deep mediatization, the development of a platformed media environment, the growth of alternative news media, the increasing impact of AI upon news production and dissemination influence those roles and bring up the question of how journalism should be taught in a rapidly changing reality and what competences, skills and knowledge a journalists should possess today. At the Moscow Readings 2025 conference we welcome a cross-cultural discussion on how journalism education has been evolving under the impact of digitalization. We encourage scholars to investigate the prospects of teaching new digital tools and technologies as part of journalism education programs, drawing attention, among other things, towards the news consumption peculiarities in different countries and the effect of the remaining digital gap on communication across cultural and ethnic groups.