Thursday, April 28, 2016
Ryerson Journalism Research Centre
Ivor Shapiro is the Chair of the Ryerson School of Journalism. This is a lightly edited version of his remarks delivered at the end of the Journalism Transformations colloquium on April 28, 2016. “The Audience Revolution” was the title of the plenary that opened this day-long colloquium. Recast from a label to include a verb,…
As a function of new conceptions of the audience and the importance of technology (as above) journalists’ work functions are no longer covered by descriptors such as reporter, editor and producer; today’s range of job titles include product manager, audience developer, communities editor, and web/mobile developer. Carrie Brown (City University of New York) and Rich Gordon (Northwestern…
In a discussion led by guest experts Carrie Brown (CUNY) and Rich Gordon (Northwestern), invited guests are encouraged to share their observations and insights into the essential question: What is the value proposition of journalism education for an age where, aided in part by rapidly evolving technologies, anyone can be a journalist and in which…
Journalism education means preparation for a career in journalism: true or false? The best answer is, sometimes. This paradigm – journalism education is preparation for a career in journalism – has been self-evident to most educators, students, and others since the discipline’s beginnings. Yet it has long been equally self-evident that a substantial number of journalism students’ futures…
(R)elationships, forms, and models?—?play themselves out in the curriculum and programs at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in various ways. I offer a description of the areas in which I work as an example of a few ways in which one school is trying to work in this age of change. Read this excerpt from…
If I were to lead a journalism school today, I’d want its mission to be: We make the media we need for the world we want. Not: We are an assembly line for journalism wannabes. The media we need could encompass investigative journalism, restorative narratives, soft-advocacy journalism, knowledge-based journalism, artisanal journalism, solutions journalism, civic journalism, entrepreneurial…
Testifying to the urgent interest in professional renewal among journalism educators, more than one hundred people from Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia attended the conference. The papers published here represent a reasonable cross-section of the issues discussed. The authors advance different ideas about where journalism education should go from here; at times they…
“This is a course in listening to a community: understanding and empathizing with its needs and learning how to help a community share its own knowledge. We will talk to ambassadors from communities of various definitions?—?geographic (neighborhoods, towns), demographic (ethnic groups, age groups), interest (topics such as cancer, parenting, or sports), and business (organized around…
1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, April 28 As a function of new conceptions of the audience and the importance of technology (as above) journalists’ work functions are no longer covered by descriptors such as reporter, editor and producer; today’s range of job titles include product manager, audience developer, communities editor, and web/mobile developer. Carrie Brown (City…
3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28 In the wake of the day’s discussions, Carrie Brown (City University of New York) and Rich Gordon (Northwestern University) begin the session with reflections on how transformation in news consumption and technological and educational innovation are changing the way we think – or ought to think – about the future of journalism education.…