{"id":7007,"date":"2014-06-01T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2014-06-01T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T16:02:26","slug":"what-next-for-college-journalism-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/06\/01\/what-next-for-college-journalism-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"What next for college journalism schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have a journalism degree at Armstrong State University (I know, it&#8217;s officially Armstrong Atlantic until 7\/1, but I&#8217;ve decided to jump the gun here on the blog), but we do have a journalism concentration within the professional communications track for the English major. Tony Morris and I each teach about half those journalism offerings.<\/p>\n<p>So of course I&#8217;ve been following news about journalism education, and it becomes increasingly clear with each passing year that larger journalism schools are facing a particularly difficult time. By their very nature, large bureaucratic institutions &#8212; i.e., colleges and the departments within them &#8212; do not adjust consistently well to rapid change. And few things are changing faster than the field of journalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpicard.net\/files\/Picard_deficient_tutelage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a cogent lecture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpicard.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert G. Picard<\/a>, director of research at the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford. It was delivered yesterday (5\/31\/14) as the keynote at the Toward 2020: New Directions in Journalism Education Conference at Ryerson University in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The opening:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12.01.09-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7008\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/06\/01\/what-next-for-college-journalism-schools\/screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12-01-09-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12.01.09-PM.png?fit=618%2C703\" data-orig-size=\"618,703\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen shot 2014-06-01 at 12.01.09 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12.01.09-PM.png?fit=263%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12.01.09-PM.png?fit=594%2C676\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12.01.09-PM.png?resize=594%2C676\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-06-01 at 12.01.09 PM\" width=\"594\" height=\"676\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12.01.09-PM.png?w=618 618w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-01-at-12.01.09-PM.png?resize=263%2C300 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The whole piece is well worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>I became aware of Picard&#8217;s talk via the highly recommended Twitter stream of Jay Rosen at NYU. I tweeted one response:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayrosen_nyu\">@jayrosen_nyu<\/a> Interesting that Picard criticizes &quot;hiring middle-aged and senior journalists&quot; but leaves out the word &quot;tenure&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Dawers (@billdawers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billdawers\/statuses\/472893983366971392\">June 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t have a journalism degree at Armstrong State University (I know, it&#8217;s officially Armstrong Atlantic until 7\/1, but I&#8217;ve decided to jump the gun here on the blog), but we do have a journalism concentration within the professional communications&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2014\/06\/01\/what-next-for-college-journalism-schools\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1259],"class_list":["post-7007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsculture","tag-journalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1P1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}