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Transplanting a Western-style Journalism Education to the Central Asian Republics of the Former Soviet Union

Elena Skochilo, Gulnura Toralieva, Eric Freedman, and Richard Shafer

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 2013 68:4, 409-420

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Transplanting a Western-style Journalism Education to the Central Asian Republics of the Former Soviet Union

Elena Skochilo, Gulnura Toralieva, Eric Freedman, and Richard Shafer

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 2013 68:4, 409-420

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Transplanting a Western-style Journalism Education to the Central Asian Republics of the Former Soviet Union: Experiences and Challenges at the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan

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Elena Skochilo¹

1American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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, Gulnura Toralieva¹

1American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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, Eric Freedman²

2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Richard Shafer³

3University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
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First Published November 8, 2013 Research Article

https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695813511621

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Volume: 68 issue: 4, page(s): 409-420

Article first published online: November 8, 2013; Issue published: December 1, 2013

Elena Skochilo¹, Gulnura Toralieva¹, Eric Freedman², Richard Shafer³

¹American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

²Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

³University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

Corresponding Author: Eric Freedman, Michigan State University, 404 Wilson Road, Room 305, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Email: freedma5@msu.edu

Abstract

Western standards of journalism education, as well as western professional journalistic practices, have had difficulty taking root in the five independent countries of formerly Soviet Central Asia. This essay examines the experience of one university’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication since 1997 and the challenges it faces, including curriculum reform, faculty retention, government regulation, and student career interests in the context of press systems that remain tightly controlled by regimes.

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journalism education, western models, faculty qualifications, government regulation, curriculum, post-Soviet

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