Are journalism schools dying?
An interesting discussion about the relevancy of j-schools. Personally, one of my biggest problems with journalism school is that the cost poses a huge barrier to people with low incomes. It’s why we end up with so many journalists who reinforce the status quo. If someone can write well, let them learn the rest on the job–the sink or swim method of natural selection. If journalism — and the role of the press in American society — is in a state of flux, then what about journalism schools? Source: insidehighered.com For as long as doomsayers have predicted the decline of civic-minded reportage as we know it, reformers have sought to draft a rewrite of the institutions that train many undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a career in journalism. Criticisms of journalism schools have ranged from questioning whether the institutions are necessary in the first place (since many journalists, and most senior ones, don’t have journalism degrees) to debating the merits of teaching practi
An interesting discussion about the relevancy of j-schools. Personally, one of my biggest problems with journalism school is that the cost poses a huge barrier to people with low incomes. It’s why we end up with so many journalists who reinforce the status quo. If someone can write well, let them learn the rest on the job–the sink or swim method of natural selection. If journalism — and the role of the press in American society — is in a state of flux, then what about journalism schools? Source: insidehighered.com For as long as doomsayers have predicted the decline of civic-minded reportage as we know it, reformers have sought to draft a rewrite of the institutions that train many undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a career in journalism. Criticisms of journalism schools have ranged from questioning whether the institutions are necessary in the first place (since many journalists, and most senior ones, don’t have journalism degrees) to debating the merits of teaching practi
