École supérieure de journalisme de Paris

Intended to give students a broad knowledge of politics and economics, it did not award a separate journalism degree by name until 1910. The University of Missouri School of Journalism also claims the title of "first in the world", but it did not open until 1908 in Columbia, Missouri in the United States.

• Name — Paris School of Journalism • Native Name — École supérieure de journalisme de Paris • Other Names — ESJ Paris • Motto — Quot capita tot sensus • Motto Lang — la • Motto Eng — As many heads, so many perceptions • Type — Private college • Established — as the journalism school of the École des Hautes Études Sociales • Affiliations — Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, European Journalism Training Association • Chairman — Emmanuel Ostian • President — Vianney d'Alançon • Head Label — Deputy chairman • Head — Bernard de La Villardière • Students — 400 • Undergrad — 300 • Postgrad — 100 • Address — 107 Rue de Tolbiac, Paris, France • Campus Type — urban • Website — https: www.esj-paris.fr/

The origins of this tertiary college were in the Collège Libre des Sciences Sociales, founded in 1895 by the journalist and novelist Dick May; Theophilus Funck-Brentano, a professor at École libre du sciences politiques; and Pierre du Maroussem, who taught at the Law Faculty of Paris (Sorbonne). Especially during the Dreyfus Affair and the rise of the université 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 by Jeanne Weill, a daughter of the rabbi of Algiers.) 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. • Illustration — Diploma from the École supérieure de journalisme de lÉcole des hautes études sociales, then located on rue de Rennes, Paris, dating from 1957. 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 and l'École de Journalisme. As with other grandes 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 were Émile Durkheim, founder of sociology; the historian Charles Seignobos, and the economist Charles 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 professional journalists and college professors. • Degree: 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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