After sulking around the numerous research ideas all week with little to no interest, I stumbled upon this piece about J-Schools trying to catch up -- and quickly -- from the New York Times. I was not planning on researching the idea of journalism schools' stake in online journalism, but I think that it could make for a charged project, especially if I incorporate student reactions within the video I would like to make for the online component. Going to school at one of the country's top J-Schools, sometimes I am astonished when the most we're told in some classes is "newspapers are dying...make sure you know online!" Every class should incorporate and acknowledge online journalism -- that's the only way for every student, even the print and broadcast purists, to learn.
There is a quote in the NYT article that stuck in my head for a few days:
“I don’t know a journalism dean in the country who knows what the solution is, or where the journalism industry is going,” says Christopher Callahan, the dean of the Cronkite School. “I am convinced that those answers are going to come from people of their generation,” he says of the students. “Not my generation.”I can only hope that my J-School classmates will be smart to realize that we have a big job ahead of us, and that is, figuring out how online journalism works -- both socially and monetarily.
Dr. Stewart has mentioned in the past that Scripps has considered basically doing away with sequences, since journalism is moving toward media convergence anyway. I would like to present this idea to students here at Scripps and gauge their reactions within my video project.
I think it's easy for students here to be critical of our J-School in regards to the amount of online journalism training they provide, but I also would like to point out a recent article in New York Magazine that suggested that Columbia has some catching up to do, too. Not all hope is lost when Columbia needs to make improvements.
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