Journalistskoler i USA opruster

Bob Stepno har en nyhed om at fem journalist-uddannelser i USA er gået sammen om at opdatere og udvikle journalist-undervisningen. Oprustningen sker i erkendelse af, at nettet og vores komplekse omverden kræver nye egenskaber. Blandt andet skal journalisteleverne nu i praktik (der kan de vist ringe til Danmarks Journalisthøjskole og få gode råd) – og de skal undervises af professorer fra andre fag end journalistik.

Især interessant at se nogle af begrundelserne fra en McKinsey rapport:

"A recent poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that fewer than one in four people believed all or most of what they read in newspapers or watched on television news programs. "This unimpressive view of journalism is reflected in the academic world, where schools of journalism have never achieved the stature long enjoyed by schools that prepare students for medicine, law, architecture, business, and other careers," the McKinsey report states."

Læs selv mere i The Chronicle (kun adgang i begrænset periode) eller hos Carnegie Corporation.