École supérieure de journalisme de Paris | |
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Other name | ESJ Paris |
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| Motto | Quot capita tot sensus |
Motto in English | As many heads, so many perceptions |
| Type | Private college |
| Established | 1899; 126 years ago (1899) as the journalism school of theÉcole des Hautes Études Sociales |
| Chairman | Emmanuel Ostian |
| President | Vianney d'Alançon |
| Deputy chairman | Bernard de La Villardière |
| Students | 400 |
| Undergraduates | 300 |
| Postgraduates | 100 |
| Address | 107 Rue de Tolbiac,Paris, France |
| Campus | urban |
| Affiliations | Agence universitaire de la Francophonie,European Journalism Training Association |
| Website | www |
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TheÉcole supérieure de journalisme (ESJ Paris; inEnglish:Paris School of Journalism) is an institution ofhigher education in Paris dedicated tojournalism and related studies. Its origin was in theCollège Libre des Sciences Sociales founded in 1895 by Dick May (pen name of Jeanne Weill, daughter of the rabbi of Algiers), and other supporters during theDreyfus Affair. It was made a separate school in 1899 and claims the title of the "world's first school of journalism". Intended to give students a broad knowledge of politics and economics, it did not award a separate journalism degree by name until 1910.
TheUniversity of Missouri School of Journalism also claims the title of "first in the world", but it did not open until 1908 inColumbia, Missouri in the United States.
The origins of this tertiary college were in theCollège Libre des Sciences Sociales, founded in 1895 by thejournalist andnovelist Dick May; Theophilus Funck-Brentano, a professor atÉcole libre du sciences politiques; and Pierre du Maroussem, who taught at the Law Faculty of Paris (Sorbonne). Especially during theDreyfus Affair and the rise of theuniversité populaire movement, they wanted to create a place for study of the new field of social sciences and emerging thought in economics. They envisioned it as a place where practitioners would teach so that students would learn from more than textbooks. (May was the pen name used byJeanne Weill, a daughter of therabbi ofAlgiers.) In 1896, May suggested a school of journalism. She and other progressive French citizens were disturbed by the inflammatory press and the discriminatory attitudes that contributed to the initial conviction of Dreyfus; they wanted to improve society by encouraging higher level work in social studies.
In 1899 three separate schools in Paris were established from the College Libre:l'École des Hautes Études Sociales,l'École des Hautes Études Internationales andl'École de Journalisme. As with othergrandes ecoles, the School of Journalism broadly prepared students for work in government administration, politics and economics, not exclusively for journalism. It awarded its first named journalism degree in 1910. Among its early professors wereÉmile Durkheim, founder ofsociology; the historianCharles Seignobos, and the economistCharles Gide, who supported economic cooperatives in agriculture and for consumers.
Today the graduate school prepares students to work in diverse positions in the media field:radio,television,newspaper, and online websites. Faculty are all professionaljournalists andcollege professors.
The school awards a diploma labeled as a "Bachelor's degree," which is not recognized by the French government or any legitimate French journalism institutions. The same lack of recognition applies to its so-called master's degree.
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