OUR MISSION:
To promote research on International and Peace Journalism
Α highly educated and specialized team of university professors, researchers and students from the Department of Journalism and Mass Media Communication in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki engaged with surveys, researches and implementations of innovative approaches in journalism.
Get to know us
Peace Journalism Lab is a center of excellence in its field and within the Greek academic community, focusing on interdisciplinary themes such as: International and European Journalism, Peace Journalism, Crisis Management, Hate speech, disinformation, verification and awareness on the fake news, Media and war, Strategic Communications, Media and News Literacy, Diversity and the Media. It has been awarded two Jean Monet Chairs for European Integration and European Public Diplomacy, and a research fund from Google (DNI Fund).
The Lab was established in 2012 in the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It is headed by Associate Professor Nikolaos Panagiotou. Every year the Lab organises Thessaloniki International Media Summer Academy, along with major Universities and Organisations from around the world.
What we do
Initiatives – Collaborations
Google Digital News Innovation Fund
Our News – Upcoming Activities
Project Joule: Data Journalism Skills inventory
By Ioanna-Georgia Eskiadi The Peace Journalism Lab of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki participates in the Pan-European program “JOULE: the Data Journalism courses for Higher Education” with the aim of…
On the establishment of the International Training Centre for the Safety of Journalists and Media Professionals
The founding members of the Thessaloniki-based International Training Centre for the Safety of Journalists and Media Professionals agreed on the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation for the establishment of…