Jonathan Hewett
Course Director, Newspaper Journalism MA
Jonathan has extensive experience both as a practising journalist and as a journalism educator. He set up and ran two news services, worked as a subeditor on Nature, and edited The Week in Europe. He was consulting editor at EU Business and editor of London Cyclist magazine, and has freelanced for many other publications.
Involved in journalism education since 1997, Jonathan joined City University in 2002, teaching on the International Journalism MA course. He has run in-house courses for journalists, worked as a consultant on editorial strategy and training, and taught English to reluctant teenagers in Germany.
Jonathan received a Teaching and Learning Award from City University in 2004/05, and is working towards an MA in Academic Practice. He is the author of a chapter on UK newspapers in Hitting the Headlines (European Journalism Centre, 2003), and The European Environmental Almanac (Kogan Page, 1996).
His research interests include journalism education (particularly methods of teaching, learning and assessment); media coverage of the EU and environmental issues; and NGOs and the press. He presented papers to the first annual conference of the Higher Education Academy (June/July 2005) and the fifth International Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (May 2005). Jonathan received one of the first research grants awarded by the Association for Journalism Education, and is completing a research project on formative feedback to students.
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