Just under thee years after she became the director of USC Annenberg School for Journalism, Willow Bay today has shattered a glass ceiling at the SoCal institute. The former Good Morning America/Sunday co-anchor has been named the dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Sinclair Broadcast Group is accepting applications for the second year of its Broadcast Diversity Scholarship Fund. The $500,000 scholarship fund was established in 2015 to help minority students finance undergraduate […]
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In this excerpt from her forthcoming e-book, Amy Webb outlines a new blueprint for the future of journalism education. “We must … radically evolve journalism education for a digital environment that is in constant flux, where the means of transmission are being built and are controlled outside the core profession and where anyone can produce content that looks like — but isn’t necessarily — vetted, reported news.”
How To Make J-Schools Matter Again
Digital futurist Amy Webb turns her attention to drawing a blueprint for future journalism education, and in an extract from her forthcoming e-book, lays one out. Courses in macro and microeconomics are in her prescription, as well as the history of Silicon Valley and the philosophy of the Internet, along with two semesters of a newsroom co-op.
Students at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism are diving into coverage of Super Bowl XLIX, working side by side with the media now descending upon Phoenix. The Cronkite School will host the event’s Social Media Command Center, and students are producing content on all media and for news orgs inlcuding Sports Illustrated, NFL.com and AZCentral.
The University of Missouri at Columbia’s School of Journalism was once again far and away the No. 1 choice as the top J-school in the country in the annual NewsPro-RTDNA Top Journalism Schools poll of news professionals. Missouri handily claimed the top spot in the 2014 survey, trailed by second-place University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and third-place Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Why I’m Worried About Newsroom Training
Knight Foundation’s Eric Newton: “We’re still struggling to sort out the three traditional types of [newsroom] training — craft skills, professional expertise and topic knowledge. Here comes the digital age with a fourth category: “change competencies.” These include curiosity, creativity, currency, flexibility, innovation, iteration and change management. Once thought to be unteachable, they’re now unavoidable. Show me a wholly creative journalist and I’ll show you a person who can thrive in a future no one can predict.”
ASU Embraces ‘Teaching Hospital’ Approach
ournalism educators have advocated a hands-on, “teaching hospital” approach for the last couple of years, and few schools have embraced that concept more than the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University where students work alongside their professors and practicing journalists to produce stories for wire services, newspapers, TV news broadcasts and public radio stations.
Enrollments in journalism and communication schools nationwide recently fell for two consecutive years for the first time in two decades, according to an annual study conducted by the University of Georgia’s James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research. Is this the start of a downward trend?
The evolution of Western Kentucky University’s School of Journalism & Broadcasting has taken a number of forms to carry the school’s tradition of in-depth storytelling into the digital future.
In many ways, the University of Florida’s Innovation News Center may be preparing its students for a newsroom experience that is yet to come. All journalism and telecommunications students must now pass through at least one hands-on semester at this center, where they hone storytelling skills across broadcast and digital platforms under the supervision of a team of faculty news managers.
Raycom, Auburn Team For Real-Time Training
Auburn University is in the middle of the competitive Columbus, Ga., DMA, which helped inspire a new partnership between its journalism school and Montgomery-based broadcaster Raycom Media, an arrangement that’s helping to turn this historically print-focused J-school into an up-and-coming multiplatform powerhouse.
Journalism education — much like journalism itself — is in the middle of a massive reboot, one with the potential to redefine how news is produced and consumed in the decades to come. Students still learn the basics, but digital is the default, and the most innovative schools are churning out students with skills newsrooms may not yet know how to use.
Despite the economic imperatives facing the media industry, professional journalists lag behind educators and others in rating the importance of multimedia and other digital storytelling skills, the Poynter Institute’s Core Skills for the Future of Journalism has found. The new research findings will be discussed in a free webinar at 2 p.m. today.
Stacey Woelfel, news director at the University of Missouri-owned NBC affiliate KOMU Columbia and associate professor in the MU School of Journalism, has been named the first director of the new Jonathan Murray Documentary Journalism Center at the MU School of Journalism. Woelfel will step down from his position at KOMU and begin working as director of the Murray Center on Sept. 1.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A leader in the reality TV genre is donating $6.7 million for the University of Missouri-Columbia to create a program in documentary journalism. The university on […]
It establishes the Harold Dow Professorship at Florida A&M University School of Journalism & Graphic Communication as well as a new paid internship program, President’s Award and professional development program at CBS News.
