Kaks teerajajat ja õpetajat. Johann Voldemar Jannsen ja Juhan Peegel
Two Groundbreakers, Two Teachers: Johann Voldemar Jannsen and Juhan Peegel

Summary/Abstract: May 16, 2019 is the 200th anniversary of Johann Voldemar Jannsen and May 19, 2019 is the centenary of the birth of Juhan Peegel. In June 1857 Jannsen started as editor of the weekly Perno Postimees, thus laying the foundation of consistent Estonian journalism. A hundred years later, in June 1957 the first students who had been trained as journalists graduated from the University of Tartu. The initiative for introducing such training to students of Estonian Philology (preparing them for work in Soviet Estonian press) had come from Juhan Peegel. The article emphasises that Jannsen taught the Estonian people to read a newspaper and to trust it, while Peegel taught his students to create one. He underlined that a journalist should have a sense of mission and self-criticism and always be responsible for their words.

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