What do we need to do differently?

One of the most interesting concepts that was brought up in last week's class was the changes that journalism schools will need to make in order to better prepare their students for the online revolution. I have been thinking about this on and off during the last week and have decided that I either want to focus on that topic or how media organizations can maintain high profit margins as the online revolution continues to occur. For the sake of this post, however, I am going to focus exclusively on the curriculum topic.

Both Poynter and the American Journalism Review have done a good degree of writing on this subject, so research shouldn't be particularly difficult. Furthermore, we are in school, meaning we are surrounded by professors and students who have a vested interest in the potential changes.

One Poynter article outlines a new journalism curriculum, so if I choose to do this topic, I may work with the idea of "What should Scripps' curriculum look like in 10 years?" I would expect my research to reveal a renewed emphasis on the business aspects of journalism as well as a need to be proficient, if not expert, in all of the different specializations.

If I choose this topic, I think that I will learn a great deal about what I must do in order to be successful in this new media world that is slowly molding itself out of something that was almost non-existent 15 years ago. Furthermore, I believe that it is a valid and important topic for anybody in journalism school or the least bit interested in the future of the profession.