James Breiner
May 17, 2013
9:08 am
Universities around the world are teaching a relatively new subject – entrepreneurial journalism.
The revolutionary changes reshaping journalism have driven the industry to search for new financial models and respond to marketplace demands. Journalism schools are part of that search: … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
May 14, 2013
3:48 pm
AOL announced last week that Columbia Journalism Review Editor-in-Chief Cyndi Stivers had
accepted the editorship of AOL.com, the company's storied Web gateway. Wait a second, I asked the journalism-industry chronicler in a phone call Monday, aren't news consumers moving away from home pages?
"Not that one!" Stivers said of AOL.com. "That’s huge. It’s still huge, huge, huge." Under her watch, she said, AOL.com will help readers: "Save them time, make them smarter, entertain them a little." Media criticism, she said, would probably not be a huge part of the home page's offerings.
AOL readers hungry for meta-reporting can still visit
CJR's snazzy home page, whose flexibility Stivers cited as one of the accomplishments of her tenure.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 3, 2013
12:54 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
May 1, 2013
9:08 am
The Daily Northwestern |
Los Angeles Times |
Daily Trojan |
USC Annenberg
Medill professor Douglas Foster accepted, then declined, the directorship of USC Annenberg, the University of Southern California's journalism school.
"It was an honor to be considered for such a prestigious job and my turning it down in the end means no disrespect for the leader of the school or the school in any way," Foster told Patrick Svitek of The Daily Northwestern.
Svitek writes that Foster said "it became clear after follow-up emails over the weekend with Annenberg officials that there were a 'couple of misunderstandings about some pretty big items on the school's agenda.'"
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Tom Rosenstiel
Apr. 15, 2013
9:20 am
Two New York writers exchanged misfire recently about journalism education, and almost all of it was misdirected. Then the conversation they started died with damning faint praise.
We should have that conversation, only a better one.
The brouhaha began when … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 1, 2013
1:54 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 18, 2013
4:12 pm
Knight |
Athens Banner-Herald |
The Red & Black
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I doubt academia will handle the digital age well," the Knight Foundation's Eric Newton writes on the organization's blog. Writing about Indiana University's
plan to combine its journalism school with other programs, he says: "Inventing the future of news can’t possibly be achieved by mashing the larger standalone schools into someone else’s college."
We’ve argued journalism education needs to grow. At Indiana, the discussion is about attrition. We think journalism education should become more important. At Indiana, the school is losing independence. Journalism schools should be nimble. At Indiana, they’re increasing the layers of decision-makers. We say top professionals should be equal to scholars. They’ll bury the pros in a college run by scholars.
A graphic accompanying Newton's story says Knight funds "social and mobile experiments, but many schools still haven't mastered the Web."
- Knight Foundation infographic (Click to view a larger version.)
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 18, 2013
11:37 am
Columbia University
New Yorker contributor and former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll will replace Nicholas Lemann as head of the graduate school for journalism this summer.
“We are grateful to Nick Lemann for his enduring contributions to Columbia,” Columbia President Lee Bollinger said in a press release. “But he would be the first to acknowledge that these exciting developments at the Journalism School cannot be seen as a legacy to be preserved, but as work that must be ongoing. I am confident that Steve Coll will do just that as dean.”
Full announcement:
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 14, 2013
1:20 pm
Riverfront Times
Kholood Eid
found out she was on ads for Webster University's MBA program when a friend passed one in an airport, Chad Garrison writes.
This surprised Eid, a student at the University of Missouri's graduate program in journalism. She did attend Webster for her undergrad work and remembers being photographed for a photo she thought "was to hang in the school's communications building along with pictures of other honor students within the department," Garrison writes. A Webster spokesperson tells Garrison that Eid signed a release giving the university free rein to use the photo as it sees fit.
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 13, 2013
11:36 am
Indiana University Provost Lauren Robel has written a detailed explanation of why the university
is merging its schools of journalism, communications, telecommunications and film studies.
The document doesn't begin with a great deal of promise; it cites an Internet search as justification for the move -- "Of the hundreds of articles one can quickly find by searching the web for 'the future of journalism,' it is hard to find one that does not focus on convergence of platforms."
But Robel goes on to make more compelling arguments. IU's journalism school, she writes, is "tiny, with a combined expenditure budget of about $7 million." How small is it? You'd have to merge it with two other schools just to make it bigger than the school of optometry...
Even combined, a school containing only Journalism, Telecommunications, and Communication and Culture would have just $14.4 million in annual expenditures, 2.6% of the overall academic expenditure budget in Bloomington. While combined, such a school would be slightly larger than Optometry, which consists of a small and focused graduate program, and has annual expenditures of $9.2 million. (more...)
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