The Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) is a nongovernmental organisation established in 1996 with financial assistance from the European Union (EU) in order to improve the quality of journalism in Malawi. This is done by promoting media independence and professionalism.

The MIJ aims at achieving its goals by providing non-residential certificate and diploma courses to both practising and aspiring journalists. Its operations are overseen by a board of trustees comprising of veteran media practitioners, trainers and managers chaired by the Principal of the Malawi Polytechnic a Constituent College of the University of Malawi. 

The Malawi Institute of Journalism (M I J) established MIJ FM Radio in the year 2000 to'be part of its Journalism training infrastructure. The radio Studios (3 - Production, Voice and On-Air Studio) were realized by way of a funded project financed by the Danish Embassy in Malawi. The project complete with one Transmitter in Blantyre was commissioned on 25th.May 2001 as MIJ 90.3 FM.

To date, the MIJ has trained over one hundred journalists from the Diploma in Journalism programme and over five hundred journalists from the Certificate in Journalism programme.

 In addition to the academic programmes, MIJ also offers customised training courses on emerging social issues such as reporting for elections, corruption, economics, drug and substance abuse, HIV/Aids reporting and others.

Most of the tutors and trainers at MIJ are from the University of Malawi as well as from the media industry and 95% of these tutors work on part-time basis. Alongside the training, MIJ has a training radio station, MIJ FM, which was established with funding from the Danish government before it suspended aid ties to Malawi. (This is what makes us different from other media houses)

In its pursuit for continued excellence in training journalist, MIJ has just undergone a curriculum review with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).  The main purpose of the curriculum review was to mainstream the current MIJ curriculum with that of the University of Malawi where students would further their studies to obtain a Degree and also to incorporate more content and practical aspects in the curriculum so that the courses are self sufficient at both Certificate and Diploma level. The outcome of the curriculum review has also come with a proposal to start weekend and parallel programmes, to cater for working journalist.

The curriculum which was implemented at the beginning of this year emerged from the curriculum review that for a long time, training of journalist has been insufficient due to lack of skills and enough practice, which MIJ as a training institution need to address. This has been our key area of concentration this year. This practical aspect is what makes the Malawi Institute of Journalism different from many other institutions thus giving MIJ students a big advantage.

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