"If you are about to start a journalism course, here are 10 things you should know to give you the best chance of succeeding and getting a job in journalism."
The Carnival returns!
"I go to meetings and all I hear is, 'Oh my God, they just keep coming and coming,' " Judy VanSlyke Turk, president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, said of the students. She added, "I'm really not sure they understand h
Pt. 2 of Rosen's chat about teaching blogging.
We’ve reached the point where having journalism students take one isolated class about “online journalism” is not sufficient.
Ideally, online reporting and editing skills (and associated ethics) would be integrated into every reporting and editing class.
"Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions — or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational games, videos
Journalism schools need to become small business foundries if they are to continue in their mission of preparing students for the real world. Unfortunately, most of them change slowly, and the rapid decline of media institutions has caught them flat-foote
"While these arrangements distinctly benefit media companies (which rightfully ought to compensate student contributors with something more tangible than “exposure”), the programs on balance represent a fair bargain for journalism students, who will need
"Journalism schools were made to serve the Church of Journalism and the vanity contained within it (“Oh, I’m a journalist actually.”). The foundations of that cathedral have been shaken to the core because there is less money to validate its existence and
Mark Briggs discusses a project from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication using geolocation in a multimedia bootcamp.
Mark Glaser talks with Jay Rosen about new approaches to training journalists
A speech to journalism students in Paris from Jay Rosen.
"And for all the journalism educators who complain that they cannot teach any new tools and software because they don’t know how to use those tools and software — what is your excuse for not putting context into your teaching? Are you oblivious to the Int
A National Public Radio report recently reopened one of the most spirited debates within collegemediatopia. The question at its core: “What’s the point of journalism school, anyway?”
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