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J- educators need to rewrite their conference programs

One U.S. journalism educator was less than impressed with his first visit to the annual conference of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. Steve Fox, a multimedia Journalism Coordinator…
Profs reluctant to share syllabi online

It’s that time of year. Profs across the country are busy preparing their courses for the fall term and producing a detailed syllabus for each course they will teach. How many are willing…
How to choose a j-program

Choosing the right journalism school or program is more challenging than ever, given the changes in the industry and the uncertainty about the future of journalism as we know it. This new media…
Lesson#1: Interviewing is listening

Teaching interviewing requires more than just giving students lists of dos and don’ts. Playing examples of television and radio interviews to illustrate the good and bad habits of interviewers is usually more…
Re-thinking lessons for j-students

One journalism educator is rewriting her lessons for the fall semester to include more straight talk for j-students and less emphasis on old arguments about the role of journalists in a democracy.…
Teaching students to blog

New York University professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen led an online chat at Poynter recently to offer advice about to teach blogging and answer questions from educators about things such as how…
J-profs and j-students rate each other

A very public disagreement between two Carleton journalism professors about journalism students played itself out on the opinion pages of the Ottawa Citizen this past week. It all began with a column…
J-schools play catch up

Some journalism schools are adapting to the changing media world with major renovations to their curricula. They are updating their skills courses, teaching more multimedia journalism and offering courses to help the students…
Feeling guilty about teaching journalism?

Salon.com offers some advice to journalism professors who may be feeling guilty about teaching students skills to work in a dying industry. The advice from Cary Tennis: “I do not think it…
Columbia j-school’s existential crisis

Columbia University’s School of Journalism appears to be facing the same internal conflict about how, or even whether, to change its curricula to teach new media skills as so many other j-schools,…