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Mar 12, 20090

J-School Curriculum in question?

Tags: curriculum, J-School, Journalism, NY Magazine

NY MAG's Daily Intel: The media bloodbath hasn’t made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School. When the Times recently announced that its new, hyperlocal blog experiment “The Local” would be assisted by journalism students not from Columbia but from the City University of New York, you could practically hear the collective gasp echoing in the hallowed halls uptown. CUNY? Since when does CUNY trump Columbia? Well, since digital journalism became the single ray of hope on an otherwise dark media horizon, and Columbia’s vaunted ability to train students as print reporters began to appear obsolete. And so the school is trying to change. Fast. Duy Linh Tu, Bill Grueskin, and Ari Goldman quoted. The comment section provides a great discussion on Columbia's curriculum between print reporters and those who have adapted to new media. While facts within the article may be questionable --  the curriculum of ALL journalism schools are debatable especially with the current state of the industry. What should future reporters learn? Subject-specific schooling? Enterprising journalism? Business models? Computer Science?  Graphic design?  Video? Audio?  Computer-Assisted Reporting? New technology? At the end of the day, reporters have to evolve with new technology, new business models, and new forms of storytelling to ...

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