Two items of interest came my way yesterday via RSS. First, in England, applications from students aspiring to obtain journalism degrees from the country’s universities are up 24 percent (?!?!) from last year. —- As the Press Gazette report notes, this astounding rise comes amid an industry tumble in which more than 1,000 j-jobs have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Journalism Future’
Journalism is Dying . . . Except in School!
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, International Student Media, Journalism, tagged College Media, Journalism, Journalism Future, North Texas, Press Gazette, Student Journalism, UK on February 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
J-students “instinctively know something . . . journalism will survive”
Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, tagged About.com, Journalism Education, Journalism Future, Journalism Professor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A host of quotes from j-profs and j-school department heads about what they tell their students, via an About.com: Journalism article, found via a St. Louis Post Dispatch report. (My own thoughts follow in brackets.): ———- Tony Chan, journalism professor at the University of Washington at Seattle, about print journalism: “I’m telling my students to [...]
Links for 2009-1-2
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, tagged College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, Journalism Future, New Media, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper, Student Press on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“This is Reality, checking in”: CoPress is being refreshingly transparent about the current limits to its college media CMS hosting plans. ————- “US college campus newspaper editors in Israel”: A brief snippet (third header down) about a fact-finding trip that will be incorporated into a documentary film. ————- “New Year’s resolutions for graduating journos”: A [...]
Missourian to Continue In Print, Drop Two Editions
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Columbia Missourian, Future of Journalism, Journalism Education, Journalism Future, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper, Student Press, University of Missouri, Vox on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Saturday and Monday editions of The Columbia Missourian are being dropped to help reduce the newspaper’s heavy operating budget deficit, but the newspaper will continue in print. (A brief write-up and related podcast can be found here.) ———— The start of an open letter to readers from the paper’s exec ed: ———— The Columbia [...]
The Cracks in College Media 2.0
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Boise State, Bryan Murley, Center for Innovation in College Media, College Journalism, College Media, Fiesta Bowl, Journalism Future, MediaShift, Student Journalism, Student Media, The Arbiter, The Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech on November 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In a new MediaShift post, Center for Innovation in College Media Director Bryan Murley writes that student newspaper Web sites have made leaps and bounds from their “little more than shovelware” days that were even as recent as three years ago. It’s a thoughtful piece, reflecting on the proactive journalistic push and general happenstances [...]
So Where’s the Beef with J-School Enrollment?
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Arkansas Traveler, College Media, Joe Grimm, Journalism Future, Student Journalism on October 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The latest Journalism Industry Scaring Students story appeared yesterday in The Arkansas Traveler at the University of Arkansas. As the nut graf mentioned, “They [j-students] hear about the decline of newspapers, the layoffs, the buyouts. They hear about the drop in advertising revenue, the hiring freezes . . . [a]nd they’re worried.” Butttt, as this piece [...]
It’s the E-Content, Stupid
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, tagged Caesar Andrew, Daily Skiff, Journalism Future, New Media, Student Journalism, Student Media, TCU, Texas Christian University on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
College news media 2.0 must always remain content-focused, according to the exec. ed. of The Detroit Free Press and a finalist for the directorship of the j-school at Texas Christian University. According to a Daily Skiff write-up on Caesar Andrew’s recent visit to TCU, the longtime journalist touted new media as the means to deliver the [...]
Student Journalists’ Futures To Be Outsourced?
Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism, tagged Dean Singleton, Journalism, Journalism Future, MediaNews Group, Outsourcing, USA Today on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As a colleague who passed along this USA Today story noted in an e-mail, “It’s not college journalism, but still, wow.” The basics: MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton speechified on Monday at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association that outsourcing might be in journalism’s next wave. According to Singleton: One thing we’re exploring is having [...]
A Counter to College Papers’ Printeriffic Optimism
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Journalism Future, New Media, NSPA, Print Newspaper, Student Newspaper on October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The debate over the future of print student newspapers continues. The Brown Daily Herald currently features a piece countering the printeriffic optimism of a recent Chronicle of Higher Ed report. In the article, the executive director of the National Scholastic Press Association said the flailing economy and online advertising alternatives are now hitting the student [...]
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