Improving cooperation for communication training

Abstract

With a few notable exceptions, efforts to foster regional and international cooperation for communication training have been hampered by a variety of obstacles, and yet, as communication needs continue to grow in industrialized nations and Third World countries alike, it is becoming increasingly urgent to develop successful strategies for cooperation. This article identifies what are believed to be two fundamental sources of problems standing in the way of cooperation: firstly, differences in the perceived role and function of journalism, and, secondly, differences in the type of relations that exist between training establishments and the communications industry. As part of a broader study this article analyzes these differences as they exist in four selected countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Denmark, and then proposes areas of common ground on which future cooperation might be built.