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Sahid Ullah’s research on Journalism education score top in international competition for WJEC-2007 The research paper of Mohammad Sahid Ullah titled ‘Scholarly Turn of
Journalism Education: redesigning curricula at university level in
Bangladesh’ has won the top score in the World Journalism Education
Congress (WJEC)-2007 research paper competition. Sahid Ullah Lipon, now
is an Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism Department at
Chittagong University.
His paper scores first position out of about a hundred research papers
across the globe on journalism and media education in university level.
The award will be handed over during the first ever WJEC to be held in
Singapore from June 25 to 28.
A total of 23 international media and journalism associations including
the Association for Journalism Education, UK, Asian Media and
Information Centre (AMIC), Journalism Education Association- Australia
and New Zealand and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication (AEJMC), USA organised the congress.
Professor Robyn Goodman, Chair of the Congress and a professor of
Communication in Alfred University, New York, and Professor Jyotika
Ramaprasad, of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and also the
Chair of the competition informed about the award in a message received
here Sunday (April 08).
Sahid Ullah began his teaching career in Journalism at Chittagong
University in 1996, served as the Chair of the department during
1998-2002. Earlier, his research on ‘Disaster Preparedness and Mass
Media in Bangladesh’ under the Hoso-Bunka Foundation Fellowship from
Japan awarded one of the best research studies on disaster and media in
consideration of the UN International Strategies for Disaster Reduction
(UNISDR) in 2003.
Currently he has been serving as the Deputy Head of Law section of the
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
in association of journalism Professor Andrei Richter of the Moscow
State University, Russia as the section head.
Widely traveled Sahid Ullah published 17 research articles in different
journals both from home and abroad. He is also author of three original
and translated books on broadcast journalism.
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