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When j-profs are out of date

Journalism professors who insist on teaching traditional journalism practices and fail to teach about the changing new media practices in today’s newsrooms, took some heavy criticism at a recent conference. A convention of college media advisers in the U.S. heard a long list of complaints from students about very dated advice they had received from their j-profs. Paul Conley,…

Journalism professors who insist on teaching traditional journalism practices and fail to teach about the changing new media practices in today’s newsrooms, took some heavy criticism at a recent conference. A convention of college media advisers in the U.S. heard a long list of complaints from students about very dated advice they had received from their j-profs. Paul Conley, a journalist and blogger provides details in his blog posting at the link below. More comments and reaction can be found at the Innovation in College Media blog.

Journalism professors who insist on teaching traditional journalism practices and fail to teach about the changing new media practices in today’s newsrooms, took some heavy criticism at a recent conference. A convention of college media advisers in the U.S. heard a long list of complaints from students about very dated advice they had received from their j-profs. Paul Conley, a journalist and blogger provides details in his blog posting at the link below. More comments and reaction can be found at the Innovation in College Media blog.

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