Ivor Shapiro: To turn or to burn

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 lie elsewhere than in journalism careers. Read Ryerson School of Journalism Chair Ivor Shapiro’s article from Toward 2020: New Directions in Journalism Education.