Whats a journalism student to learn?
At last month’s AEJMC conference in Denver, a professor asked what should we be teaching journalism students today? A recent article with Jena Heath of St. Edward’s University addresses the same question. Should journalism schools be ditching the basics and loading up on tech-based curriculum? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been frantically waving my hand over my crystal ball for that past five years to no avail. I still can’t see into the future. None of us can. We know what we hope, what we can imagine and what we dream. In spite of all our intelligence, life has a funny way of throwing some crazy stuff at us that tosses even our most educated guesses out the window. Once we acknowledge all that we don’t know, we can focus on what we do know. People will need information. We as journalists want to provide accurate, fair, authoritative, ethical and clear information. And what we need to be teaching the journalists of the future is how to gather, write and edit informatio
