While attempting to shape curriculum, journalism programs across the country face similar, complex issues to keep pace with today's evolving field. With more skills required for entry-level journalists, one of the challenges is shaping classes to not onlywhat students need to know but also the skills they already bring.
In this issue, Dr. Jeff Wilkinson of Houston Baptist University writes about the effective steps for building a better journalism program, the decisions that need to be made in the trenches. He says it's vital for educators to assess their program in three areas. Once they've done that, the proper steps can be taken to get a program to the next level.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
March 2013: Common Issues Face Journalism Programs Today
Monday, February 25, 2013
February 2013: Understanding journalism's future vital for educators
In the February issue of The Convergence Newsletter, Shixin Zhang and David Edwards of the University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China, pose an interesting look at the future of journalism education. The professors examine the changing world of journalism and offer a formula on the future of its education.
It begs the question of how we teach students in this constantly redeveloping field? Read the article and post your comments below. Be sure to visit the newsletter on our Facebook and Google+ pages as well.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
December 2012: A call to disrupt convergence
Larry Dailey issues a provocative call to disrupt convergence projects between colleges and newspapers in America. The University of Nevada-Reno professor questions whether some of the partnerships do more than provide newspapers with free student labor. Read Dailey's article in the December edition of the The Convergence Newsletter, and post your thoughts below. What should college journalism programs require of newspapers, television stations, and other news businesses in a convergence partnership? Continue the conversation on the newsletter's Google+ or Facebook pages.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
November 2012: How students seek information in the age of convergence
The new technology explosion requires that media audiences learn and
maintain new skills for information literacy so they can find, filter,
evaluate, and use information.
In the new issue of The Convergence Newsletter, Alex Gorelik and Anton Bezuglov of Benedict
College report on their experiment to determine how students seek and
evaluate information. Their pilot study used T.D. Wilson's framework of
information-seeking behavior to record students' choices as they searched for the answer to a question. Gorelik and Bezuglov found
that students' impatience to find a clear answer can trump even their
knowledge that a single information source may be suspect. Read the article, then visit the newsletter's Facebook and Google+ pages.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
October 2012: Teaching the business of journalism, while teaching business journalism
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
October 2012: Seven functions of Twitter for journalists
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
September 2012: Nonprofit news sites face a different set of challenges
As the Great Recession accelerated the decline of traditional news
operations in the U.S. and some other countries, the number of nonprofit
news ventures has increased to fill the reporting void. In a new
article, two veterans of nonprofit startups explore the different set of
challenges nonprofits face. Read the article, then join the discussion below or at The Convergence Newsletter's Google+ or Facebook pages.
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