Media Convergence leads to fundamental changes in the journalistic field. This is a challenge not only for the news industry but also for teaching journalism at universities. Improved skills and competences are needed in multi-modal editorial planning and cross-channel development of news stories. This paper describes the main drivers of change in the news industry, discusses consequences for journalism and teaching, and offers an innovative didactical approach, which combines an interdisciplinary perspective with the concept of connectivism and cognitive apprenticeship. The consequences of convergence that affect journalism education are inspected under three sub-topics: the changes in the curricula, the changes in the courses syllabi, and the changes in the technological infrastructures of the academic institutions. It is pointed out, that recognizing connections and patterns to develop novel ideas and concepts is the core skill for individuals today. The paper shows, how that approach could be realized in an international 10-day-intensive program.A fundamental change in the media landscape has happened in the last decade, which could be described as convergence. Convergence was formerly defined as the merging of value chains in the TIMES-Industry: Established IT-companies invest in telecommunication, telcos invest in content, and media companies in net-infrastructure and so on. Others describe with convergence the horizontal integration of media companies across the borders of distribution channels like radio, print, or television. But today convergence must be seen in a broader way: We follow Rose et al. (2009: 1) in their understanding of convergence, which "involves a series of ongoing discontinuities in technology, infrastructure, consumer behavior, and competitive dynamics that are creating new competitors and business models and are redefining a wide range of industries besides media, telecommunications, and technology".Let's start with discontinuities: It's harder than ever to predict developments on media markets, evolutionary trends in technology and user behavior have been replaced by disruptive changes, as you could see for example in the redefinition of business models in the music industry through legal (and illegal) downloads. This also changes strategic planning in media companies: A long term perspective is no longer suitable and must be replaced by new ways to observe trends in the companies' environment and to react on it with appropriate solutions for the customer's needs. In consequence the importance of knowledge and innovation management increases.On the technology and infrastructure level digitalization, diminishing costs of storage capacities, broadband networks and open interfaces and standards are the main drivers of convergence. Killer applications like search engines, auction platforms, content aggregators or online social networks are based on it, but also local wikis, online designer shops, or blogs.Additionally web technology emancipates themselves from personal computers. Devic...

If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of the differences in European and American perspectives on privacy and to question whether most users of web services, such as Facebook, are equipped with the proper level of media literacy skills in order to manage the responsibility for their own privacy. Design/methodology/approach -Discussion of theoretical concepts on privacy, from the perspectives of both law and social sciences. Findings -Promoting government responsibility for the privacy of individual citizens seems problematic in an online context, as it threatens to open the door to censorship. One should wonder whether citizens need protection from what is perceived as infringement to the rights of privacy, while these citizens are actually consumers, using commercially provided services with policies that they have agreed to. The European Commission has been following closely what is happening to personal data online. Several forms of legislation have been brought into force aiming to enhance the protection of personal data of European citizens. This European protectionism often clashes with the privacy policies of, largely American, commercial organisations such as Facebook and Google. Research limitations/implications -Further research should be carried out on whether the general user is media literate enough to be able to mitigate their privacy online. Legislators are focussed on handing responsibilities to the users themselves, however users could benefit from a more paternalistic approach. Originality/value -This paper combines perspectives on online privacy from the multi-disciplinary perspectives of law and social sciences. These two viewpoints are not often combined in critical literature. This paper serves as a discussion piece for future research and media literacy programs in higher education.

Open data is both an opportunity and a challenge for journalism. Our paper describes how newsroom quality management has to be readjusted to provide accurate news in data driven journalism and how these changes affect the pedagogy and learning environments of journalism education. We discuss qualitative changes in newsgathering caused by the availability of open data sets and big data sources and their consequences for quality management against the background of structuration theory. Although there is no clear evidence signaling disruptive change in quality management, two developments cause a need for normative realignment, expansion of individual skill sets and an inventory of novel resources.