classrooms as newsrooms: presentation at columbia, oct 26, 2013
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Classrooms as newsrooms Columbia University, Oct 26, 2013
Donica Mensing Reynolds School of Journalism
University of Nevada, Reno @donica
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485 journalism programs in the US
93% of journalism students are undergraduates
51,315 students graduated with degrees in journalism and mass communication in 2012 (total daily newspaper workforce in 2013 was 38,000)
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We need to change not just tactics but also self-‐conception.
Post-‐Industrial Journalism: AdapCng to the Present C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell, Clay Shirky
“…Taking advantage of access to individuals, crowds and machines
will mean changing organizational structure as well.
JOURNALISTS. JOURNALISM EDUCATION.
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The entire economy is shifting. Global transition from the industrial age to the digital
information age.
The publishing business has experienced 40 years of stagnation
(Hoag and Seo, 2005)
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JOURNALISTS. JOURNALISM EDUCATION.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Teaching!Hospital!! ! ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!Entrepreneurial!!!!
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Year!round!!High!institutional!commitment!!
Semester!only!Limited!infrastructure!!!
Prototypes,!pitches!In0class!experiments;!new!reporting!practices!!
Community!partnerships!and!experiments;!innovation!labs;!entrepreneurial!programs!
Professional!products!!Maintained!by!university!Graduate/post!graduates!
Media!partnerships!Sharing!student!content!Filling!gaps!in!coverage!
Journalism Educa/on Projects
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Reproduces the best of journalism as we know it
Prepares students for established
roles
Teaching hospital model:
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Serves a general public
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Entrepreneurial Model • Prepares students for a changing labor market
• Sharpens focus on social needs and problems
• Provides tools for responding and adapCng to change
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Entrepreneurial concepts could be applied to: • Professional pracCces (e.g. story forms, sourcing, interviewing, etc.) • Civic pracCces (organize, contribute) • Technological pracCces (new apps, sites) • Economic pracCces (new forms of revenue) • Pedagogical pracCces (alternaCve teaching methods, lessons, assignments)
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• Reporter • Editor • Photographer • Designer
• Data journalist • Interactive designer • Community manager • Social media editor • VeriYication analyst • Curator/aggregator • Coder/programmer • Map developer • Blogger • Analytics manager
Prepares for new journalistic roles
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Entrepreneurial journalism looks to a variety of organizaCons as models and partners