Teaching Journalism

FEATURES
J-schools play catch up
At one U.S. University, instead of studying the “business of journalism” and learning about the broken business model, students are now challenged to find new ways to “pay for journalism.” The details are in this lengthy piece from the Sunday New York Times. Link»
Feeling guilty about teaching journalism?
Salon.com offers some advice to journalism professors who may be feeling guilty about teaching students skills to work in a dying industry. Link»
RESOURCES
edited by Mary McGuire
Mary McGuire Journalism education in Canada is changing both because journalism is changing and the demand for post-secondary journalism programs is growing. This site is designed to help teachers of journalism in Canada find and share ideas, curricula, approaches and resources that might help them as educators of the next generation of journalists in Canada.


Please also visit my blog Teaching Journalism Today. This is an occasional blog that I plan to use to share my observations and pass on tips and advice to my students, past and present, about the practice of journalism in Canada today, especially mutimedia journalism.

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No Train, No Gain: A library of resources for j-trainers
No Train, No Gain is a website initiated by a Freedom Forum report in 1993 in which newsroom trainers provide a huge range of resources for newsroom trainers which could be useful to journalism educators. More»