From The Stanford Daily
The blog "Innovation in College Media" has an interview with long-time web journalist and Gatehouse Media Director of Digital Publishing Howard Owens on the future of "new media." His advice for journalism schools includes redesigning curriculums and publication efforts to include web-geared skills like blogging and video (good news for Jay Rosen and his "Blogging 101" students), and to "be even more dismissive of print than mainstream pubs are right now." For students themselves, he offers the following words of wisdom:
Every student journalist should spend at least six months totally immersed in blogging. Start a blog and try to draw an audience. Do the things that bloggers need to do, read other blogs, create a blog roll, link to other blogs, post frequently on topics relevant to the audience you're trying to reach (and read those blogs in that category), comment on other blogs.
Meanwhile, over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Georgia Southern University Professor Sonya Huber-Humes worries that the growing emphasis in J-school curricula on "subject-driven, in-depth reporting" may in fact be producing students who overestimate their own knowledge. "Yes, reporters must be able to wrestle with complex subjects, but too often the role of expert that reporters tend to adopt results in patronizing news coverage that distances itself from and even disparages the events and people being reported on," she laments after noting that "the focus on advanced analysis encourages students to think they know everything." Funny how little things change once they're all grown up.
