The Journalism Educators Institute will be held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on June 6-8, 2025 and is designed to help you engage with the latest ideas and trends to refresh your teaching.
Building on more than a decade of experience in helping educators improve their craft, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kathleen Bartzen Culver and the University of Georgia’s Mark E. Johnson are leading this effort. They are bringing together leaders in news media and higher education to train you across a range of topics, from how Artificial Intelligence will change us to how universities actually work.
If you’re a seasoned teacher or just starting out, we will have sessions to help guide your career and lead your students to success. You’ll be joining a community of practice that will pay dividends long after our weekend together.
Register here for an Institute sure to inform, intrigue and inspire.
Your instructors
Mark E. Johnson and Katy Culver are eager to build on their 15+ years of experience helping college educators move forward in their teaching.
Culver is the James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics. Long interested in the implications of digital media on journalism and public interest communication, Culver integrates research, teaching and service to advance integrity in media. She also studies free expression, especially in campus contexts. She served as visiting faculty for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and was the founding editor of PBS MediaShift’s education section.
Johnson is the Principal Lecturer of Photojournalism and Chief Technology Officer for the University of Georgia College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Johnson has spent the last 35 years working as a photojournalist, director of photography and educator. He directs several experiential photojournalism workshops each year that bring students into the rural communities of Georgia in addition to partnering with the Associated Press for reporting trips to the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the Women’s World Cup in Australia. He is also the director of the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism competition and was on the visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.