A nearby storm to strike journalism education
Education in journalism will get the same turmoil as the media have been through for the last 20 years. It begins now in big scale.
- According to Howard Finberg, director of Partnerships and Alliances at Poynter Institute, the changes will split journalism education from journalism degrees, traditional classes aren't as effective as e-learning, training will be mastered by the students themselves, they will tend to get it from the best places in the world, teachers have no chance to follow the rapid changes, and we will need to innovate inside the classroom.He presented his ideas at European Journalism Centre's 20th anniversary celebration the 4th of June 2012 in Maastricht, Netherland. On Poynters website there 11 days later was presented a summary of his speech:
Journalism education cannot teach its way to the future | Poynter.As we think about the changes whipping through the media industry, there is a nearby storm about to strike journalism education. The futu...- Here you can see the full text of the speech from Howard Finberg:
The Future of Journalism Education. A Personal Perspective | Poynter's News UniversityToday (June 4, 2012) I gave the keynote speech at the European Journalism Centre's 20th anniversary celebration in Maastricht, The Nether...- Just after the speech a Storify of some of the reactions was put together by Howard Finberg:
The Future of Journalism Education: Keynote to European Journalism Centre Conference
Howard Finberg gave the keynote address at the 20th Anniversary Conference in Maastricht, NI on June 4, 2012. The topic was the future of...- After publishing the summary on the Poynter website, comments on twitter keep coming in:
Interesting Howard Finberg speech on the future of journalism/journalism degrees. Don't agree w all but worth read: newsu.org/future-journal…
Howard Finberg: Journalism education is at its own inflection point bit.ly/MQtDdR
According to Howard Finberg, "there is a nearby storm about to strike journalism education." bit.ly/Mfar8j
“the world is changing faster than the people who are supposed to teach students can learn themselves.” -howard finberg poynter.org/how-tos/journa…- I think the input is really important. But I need to think and discuss more to find my opinion on this.At this time, I'm rather convinced on the need for getting training from the best sources, not vasting the time for the students on old systems and knowledge. As a teacher you need to find a way to innovate while you go.My co-teacher Kristian Strøbech at The Danish School of Media and Journalism and I try to do it by integrating new methods in the training in digital journalism without knowing them beforehand, and develop the use together with the students. Especially on covering events using social and mobile media and integrating it with traditional coverage.You also need to move more and more of the traditionel training out of the classroom, learning the students methods to solve the different tasks and innovate themselves.There's another interesting blogpost of the change in the journalism education, written by Paul Bradshaw:
The 3 forces changing journalism education part 2: the education business | Online Journalism BlogYesterday, in the first part of this series, I talked about how changes in the news industry were reflected in changing journalism educat...- Media crisisThe discussion on the specific need for change in the journalism training now, comes after some heavy input on the situation in the medias. A very interesting presentation of the situation for the media was done by Stijn Debrouwer:
FungibleWe don't realize how much news media has changed in the past fifteen years. We really don't. I'm not talking about digital first or about...- Burt Herman from Storify made a collection of the reaction to this blog:
Is journalism being replaced?A look at a week's worth of reaction and conversation around a provocative blog post discussing the ways that journalism is being replace...- Here Mathew Ingram have done another rather hard and precise description of the situation for the media:
The hard truth: Newspaper monopolies are gone foreverNewspapers haven't really had a monopoly on the news or the advertising market for some time, but they continue to behave as though they ...- More important input - collected in august 2012:This is a good recap of the discussion from Mary McGuire, from The Canadian Journalism Project:
J-schools at a turning point | J-source.caThe future of journalism education is as uncertain as the future of journalism. Journalism educators everywhere are struggling to adapt t...- A report from august 2012 shows a rather rapid change in the need for journalism training - expressed by the journalist themselves - most from US and Latin America.
- Knight report on training shows journalists want technology, multimedia, data skills | Poynter.A new study by the Knight Foundation released today summarizes the state of journalism training. Some findings from "Digital Training Com...
- Here's a very concrete suggestion for a future training:
