The Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York is introducing a new master of arts degree in entrepreneurial journalism.The New York Times reports that the program will focus on the business of managing media, and the study and creation of new media business models, and it will offer students apprenticeships at…
It has been 12 years since I left the relative safety and security of Carleton’s journalism school and went out to become “a journalist”. It was mysterious, exciting and worrisome: how do you land that first job? By the Ottawa Citizen's Melanie Coulson.
Technology is taking over the curriculum at too many j-schools and the results are "disastrous," accorinding to a well-known journalism educator and the author of the widely-used News Reporting and Writing, now in it's 12th edition. Melvin Mencher says instruction in basic reporting and writing, journalism history and ethics is being squeezed by the growing…
A Ryerson journalism instructor is teaching his students how to be mobile journalists with a little help from Motorola and Telus. Last year, Wayne MacPhail found the students in his class had a mix of different devices. This year, however, they will now be able to use the same devices to post audio, video, images and text to…
The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning to shut down its traditional journalism and mass communication programs. In a statement on its website, the university says it wants to consider, instead, a new interdisciplinary academic program of information and communication technology and has set up an exploratory committee to help it do that.
A recent and successful Carleton journalism graduate says j-school has a lot to offer students these days, but not the one thing most of them want – a job in journalism. Laura Drake graduated from Carleton University’s School of Journalism in 2007 and has worked for three major daily newspapers in Canada. In a column at macleans.ca…
It's easy enough to imagine downloading texts to read them on an iPad. But imagine being able to download single chapters, rather than full texts. Imagine interacting with the content through quizzes and other feature or highlighting text for others to see and sharing comments on passages with classmates.Those are some of the things promised by a…
If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It’s a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author of The Digital Journalist’s Handbook and the blog 10,000 Words.
A new media journalism professor in the U.S. has decided to ban laptops in some of his media classes. Jeremy Littau says he loves technology, but the evidence is building that student test scores improve in classes where laptops are banned. He is also concerned about what he calls "the halo effect." "When a student has a laptop open, invariably the…
Start building your audience now. Understand that your journalism career started when you first posted anything to the Web and that j-school is about helping you improve it. So, conduct yourself as a journalist at all times. Those are just some of the useful tips for journalism students heading back to school posted at the…