Russian Council for Journalism Education (UMS) is a part of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association (FUMO) for an enlarged group of education Mass Media and Library Studies. Its activities include design of educational standards for journalism education, development of templates for educational programs, model curricula and teaching methods construction, organization of ‘train the trainer’ seminars, discussions and conferences; expertize of textbooks and teaching materials.

At present, UMS unites 150 universities that educate future journalists

Interactive map of journalism education institutions in Russia.  

Board of the Russian Council for Journalism Education

Chairman: 

Vartanova, Elena –Professor and Dean, Faculty of Journalism Lomonosov Moscow State University, Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Education evarta@mail.ru;

Board Members:

Abov, Evgenij– Vice-President, Guild of Periodical Press Publishers, World Association of Newspapers; Deputy Director for International Projects, newspaper Rossijskaja Gazeta;

Balmaeva, Svetlana– Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of TV and Radio Journalism, Humanitarian University in Yekaterinburg;
  
Borisova, Ludmila– Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Philology and Journalism, Chernyshevsky Saratov State University;

Gromova, Ludmila –Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism History, Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communication, St. Petersburg State University;

Gusev, Pavel, Chief Editor and Chairman, newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets, Union of Journalists of Moscow;

Yershov, Yury– Professor andChair, Department of TV and Radio Journalism, Faculty of Journalism, Tomsk State University;

Lepilkina, Olga– Professor andChair, Department of History and Theory of Journalism, Humanitarian Institute, North Caucasian Federal University;

Lozovsky, Boris– Professor andHead, Faculty of Journalism, Institute for Humanities and Arts, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin;

Lukina, Maria– Associate Professor and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University maria_lukina@list.ru;

Nigmatullina, Camilla– Associate Professor and Head, Department of Digital Media, Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communication, St. Petersburg State University;

Purgin, Yury– Professor and Executive Director, Department of Theory and Practice of Journalism, Faculty of Mass Communications, Philology and Political Sciences, Altai State University, Publishing House AltaPress;

Samartsev, Oleg– Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism and Philology, Faculty of Culture and Arts, Ulyanovsk State University;

Skvortsov, Yaroslav– Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of International Journalism, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;

Soloviev, Vladimir– Journalist, Chairman of the Russian Union of Journalists;

Tulupov, Vladimir – Professor and Dean, Faculty of Journalism, Voronezh State University;
  
Shestyorkina, Lyudmila – Professor and Dean, Faculty of Journalism, South Ural State University.

Orlova, Margarita – Secretary, ums_journ@mail.ru