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72nd World Media Forum

The 72nd World Media forum, entitled "Looking at the World through the North African Lens," took place on Monday, November 1, 2010 and was held in partnership with Georgia State African American Student Services and Programs, the Georgia Council for International Visitors, the U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program, the Georgia State Model African Union, the League of Arab States Student Association, the Department of Communication, the Office of International Student and Scholar Services, and the Journalism History Society. Participants included seven journalists from three countries, including Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Photos taken by Shuhua Dai.

AUSACE 15th Annual Conference

The 15th annual AUSACE conference will be held October 16 - 19 in Kuwait. For further information, please visit the conference website and peruse the conference schedule. 

71st World Media Forum

Study Abroad in China Survey

AUSACE Website Redesign

JMEM now Online

The Journal of Middle East Media (JMEM) recently published it's first online edition and was presented at the 14th annual conference for the Arab-U.S. Association of Communication Educators (AUSACE).

ARJH to be Indexed by Ebscohost

The Atlanta Review of Journalism History, one of the two peer-edited journals the CIME publishes, will soon be indexed by Ebscohost.

Newly Awarded Grant

The Center for International Media Education (CIME) has been awarded a grant to launch a media advocacy project in connection with China’s two-year anti-smoking campaign.

The grant from Georgia State University’s International Strategic Initiatives fund will help CIME ‘s project to develop smoke-free workplaces in China’s factories.

“We are pleased that the university has recognized the value and timeliness of CIME’s media advocacy project and the Center’s partnerships with two Chinese universities in Beijing and Shanghai,” Leonard Teel, the CIME director, said.

China is the world’ leading producer of tobacco and has more than 300 million smokers, according to the World Lung Foundation, with another 540 million non-smokers affected by second-hand smoke.  About 12,000 deaths in China each year are attributed to second-hand smoke.

In the project’s first phase, CIME plans to develop a model smoke-free workplace at the Heng Fa (Prosperity Forever) Automotive Plant in Hefei City, Anhui Province.

The project was a direct outcome of the investigative writing course Teel taught in May for graduate students at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Three of the BFSU teams investigated the country’s smoking problems now being addressed by China’s Ministry of Health.

To read their stories, please click here.

Intercultural Conference

 Photo by Matt Duffy.

On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 seven Iraqi journalists were invited to speak with faculty and students about the current state of Iraq at an intercultural conference hosted by the CIME in room 835 of One Park Place. The informal question-and-answer style format of the conference allowed the conversation to range from a consideration of the necessity of removing Saddam Hussein from power to the impact of the invasion on news and reporting practices in Iraq. Matt Duffy, a doctoral student in communications at Georgia State University, attended the conference, and his blog contains a full report of the proceedings.