Guillermo Franco, editor of the Colombian paper El Tiempo, recently published an essay (in Spanish) about how journalism schools keep teaching the same things while nearly everything is changing thanks to the Internet.
Outlining the main issues related to media — from Time’s Person of the Year, to the weblog explosion, to the popularity of You Tube videos — Franco explains that journalists must evolve to a new context. This new context poses threats, but offers opportunities, too. He also cites Max Magee’s study of what online journalists need.
Franco states that journalism schools (at least in Colombia) are not keeping pace with those changes. He wants to spur discussion on what needs to change, because change doesn’t wait. Even for journalists.
