Good advice
Steve Safran advises journalism students:
Nobody should “go into online news.” Or “TV news” or “newspaper news” or “radio news.” Just go into news. The great thing about the web is that it’s bringing all these sources together. The artificial-wall snobbery can go hang. We’re “journalists” and your platform of choice is meaningless; you’ll need to know ‘em all. Specialize, absolutely. But make yourself indispensable.
I agree: That’s where it has to go. At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, we just retitled “new media” to “interactive journalism” and loosened the strictures of the print/broadcast/interactive tracks. Journalism students must reach across these boundaries, just as journalists must.
Tags: cuny, journalism, Media
December 14th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
[...] When visiting BuzzMachine this afternoon, I came across a post discussing the evolution of journalism. Apparently, the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY) has changed the term “new media” to “interactive journalism”. [...]
December 14th, 2005 at 4:24 pm
Somewhat along those lines, here is a related piece on some simple ways that TV newsrooms can use technology productively.
http://allyourtv.com/rickonmedia/more.php?id=138_0_1_0_M