International Encyclopedia of Communication Online

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In Turkey, the start of communication as an academic field was closely linked to →  journalism education . The need for a school of journalism was first announced in 1947 by Sedat Simavi, a journalist and then president of the Istanbul Journalists' Association (also called the Turkish Journalists' Association). In the early 1950s the institute at Istanbul University enrolled almost 500 students to study for a degree in journalism. The courses were taught by experienced journalists who wrote textbooks for journalists. The curriculum was interdisciplinary and included courses in the general knowledge of sociology and law ( Tokgöz 2003 ; Topuz 2003 ). The perception of the increasing importance of media and communication studies in the western world during the 1960s led to the establishment of a new school of journalism in Ankara. Hifzi Topuz, who had been trained at the University of Strasbourg and was a →  UNESCO officer at the time, drew up plans for the new school. The Journalism and Broadcasting School was founded in 1964 within the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. Its curriculum extended to cover →  radio , →  television , and →  cinema , and emphasized a balance between a theoretical and a practical education, as well as the importance of journalistic ethics (→  Ethics in Journalism ). In the 1970s this basic concept was adapted by other universities, which ... log in or subscribe to read full text