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Revitalizing Journalism Education for Modern Newsrooms

Explore challenges and solutions in adapting the journalism curriculum to meet industry demands. Discover practical strategies to enhance students' cross-platform skills and prepare them for a rapidly evolving field. Presented by Mindy McAdams from the University of Florida.

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Revitalizing Journalism Education for Modern Newsrooms

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  1. Transforming The Journalism Curriculum Presentation by Mindy McAdams University of Florida

  2. What we do well now • Teach students how to report and understand the professional norms of the field • Train them in a specialization (e.g., such as photojournalism, print editing, on-camera reporting for TV)

  3. What we don’t do well now • Teach them how to survive and thrive in the field that journalism is becoming

  4. Our challenges • Our current department structures are not designed to support cross-platform journalism • Our faculty are often not well-versed in multiple platforms, new technologies • Our students might resist, saying “I only want to …” • Our schools lack equipment and facilities, e.g., software, updated labs

  5. Is it an optionto waitand do nothing?

  6. Possible solutions • Hire one versatile faculty member and set up “convergence” courses • Doesn’t this encourage the same silo mentalities among both students and educators? • Does this prepare the students to “think different”?

  7. If we wantto train studentsto think different, then we’ve got to do it ourselves.

  8. These reasons don’t cut it • “We don’t know how” • “We don’t have equipment” • “We don’t know what they’re doing in these newsrooms”

  9. Video

  10. Video • Example from the Toronto Star • Example from the San Jose Mercury News • And some blogs to keep you well informed …

  11. Angela Grant: In the Circle

  12. Cyndy Green: VideoJournalism

  13. Richard Koci Hernandez: MultimediaShooter

  14. Cade White: Digicade

  15. Databases

  16. Five things you can do now • Assign articles by or about Adrian Holovaty • Study ChicagoCrime.org • Discuss the Naples affordable housing project • Assign a project built with Atlas • Use exercises from NICAR to teach Excel

  17. “The way I see it, there are three basic tasks that journalists do:1. Gathering information. 2. Distilling information. 3. Presenting information. ‘Doing journalism through computer programming’ is just a different way of accomplishing these goals. Namely, the technique favors automation wherever possible.”

  18. http://www.chicagocrime.org/map/

  19. http://www.naplesnews.com/affordable_housing/search/

  20. http://www.naplesnews.com/affordable_housing/search/

  21. http://www.naplesnews.com/affordable_housing/search/

  22. http://fmatlas.com/atlas2/

  23. http://fmatlas.com/atlas2/

  24. http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/tipsheets.php

  25. Graphics

  26. Los Angeles Times

  27. Another good use for Excel

  28. Houston Chronicle

  29. Photo

  30. Two issues • Visual skills for all students—not just the photojournalism students • Composition • Rationales • Ethics • Editing and formatting photo files for online

  31. http://markhancock.blogspot.com/

  32. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  33. Magnum in Motion

  34. Audio

  35. Audio is easy and cheap • Microphone handling • Interview techniques • Digital editing (Audacity is free) • Save file as MP3 • Use a free audio player to embed the MP3 directly on a Web page

  36. HTML and CSS

  37. Why teach HTML and CSS? • Dreamweaver is not necessarily as useful as HTML and (at least some) CSS • Facebook / MySpace will not help them in a journalism job • It’s a leg up

  38. Ways to introduce HTML and CSS • One solution: Use Blogger (covered in a later session) • Require students to build a simple Web page by hand with HTML • Headings • Links • Images

  39. Pssst! My own secret • I have usually learned technology that I teach in class less than one week before the first time I taught it

  40. In conclusion • We all need to start now • We are all behind—but we can catch up!

  41. Transforming The Journalism Curriculum Presentation by Mindy McAdams University of Florida

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