Overview

The Sri Lanka College of Journalism endeavours to "We shape the future," by imparting world class training and education for journalists in Sri Lanka. The SLCJ is equipped with state-of-the art facilities to teach both print and broadcast journalism, and is today, the premier institute of it’s kind in Sri Lanka. The college has a faculty of experienced journalism trainers and draws on a pool of lecturers who are employed full time in national newsrooms. The Sri Lanka College of Journalism is established and run by the media industry as a collective initiative along with the Sri Lanka Press Institute and the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka.

The SLCJ has produced little more than 25o fresh journalists to the Sri Lankan media through its Diploma course since 2004.This is in addition to the more than thousand journalists trained on comprehensive subjects under the mid career and regional training programmes.

The Three main programs of the College are:

The one year full time diploma course in journalism, the flagship programme of the SLCJ, provides a new breed of multi skilled journalists to the Sri Lankan media. Monthly mid-career courses for journalists already working in the industry address immediate training needs of the Sri Lankan media. The SLCJ also provides regular training courses for provincial journalists as well.

The SLCJ is administered by the Sri Lanka Press Institute, a partnership between The Editors Guild, the Newspaper Society, the Free Media Movement and the Sri Lanka Workin\g Journalists Association. The SLCJ is supported by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Denmark while curriculum and training support is provided by FOJO media institute, the journalism training arm of the University of Kalmar in Sweden.

In all the courses conducted by the SLCJ there is a strong ethics portion which introduces the participants to the Code of Practice developed by The Editor's Guild of Sri Lanka. Beginning from 2010 New Media is also incorporated to the SLCJ Diploma and Mid Career training to meet the growing demand by the industry as well as be on par with the international standards on training that the SLCJ offers.