Classrooms as newsrooms: Presentation at Columbia, Oct 26, 2013
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Classrooms as newsrooms Columbia University, Oct 26, 2013
Donica Mensing Reynolds School of Journalism
University of Nevada, Reno @donica
485 journalism programs in the US
93% of journalism students are undergraduates
51,315 students graduated with degrees in journalism and mass communication in 2012 (total daily newspaper workforce in 2013 was 38,000)
We need to change not just tactics but also self-‐conception.
Post-‐Industrial Journalism: AdapCng to the Present C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell, Clay Shirky
“…Taking advantage of access to individuals, crowds and machines
will mean changing organizational structure as well.
JOURNALISTS. JOURNALISM EDUCATION.
The entire economy is shifting. Global transition from the industrial age to the digital
information age.
The publishing business has experienced 40 years of stagnation
(Hoag and Seo, 2005)
.
JOURNALISTS. JOURNALISM EDUCATION.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Teaching!Hospital!! ! ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!Entrepreneurial!!!!
! ! ! !!!!! !!
Year!round!!High!institutional!commitment!!
Semester!only!Limited!infrastructure!!!
Prototypes,!pitches!In0class!experiments;!new!reporting!practices!!
Community!partnerships!and!experiments;!innovation!labs;!entrepreneurial!programs!
Professional!products!!Maintained!by!university!Graduate/post!graduates!
Media!partnerships!Sharing!student!content!Filling!gaps!in!coverage!
Journalism Educa/on Projects
Reproduces the best of journalism as we know it
Prepares students for established
roles
Teaching hospital model:
Serves a general public
Entrepreneurial Model • Prepares students for a changing labor market
• Sharpens focus on social needs and problems
• Provides tools for responding and adapCng to change
Entrepreneurial concepts could be applied to: • Professional pracCces (e.g. story forms, sourcing, interviewing, etc.) • Civic pracCces (organize, contribute) • Technological pracCces (new apps, sites) • Economic pracCces (new forms of revenue) • Pedagogical pracCces (alternaCve teaching methods, lessons, assignments)
• Reporter • Editor • Photographer • Designer
• Data journalist • Interactive designer • Community manager • Social media editor • VeriYication analyst • Curator/aggregator • Coder/programmer • Map developer • Blogger • Analytics manager
Prepares for new journalistic roles
Entrepreneurial journalism looks to a variety of organizaCons as models and partners