Comments on: Journalism Education's Future: Broader, Deeper than its Past

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:46:15 +0000

Pablo, this is one of the key elements of what we need to figure out in the future — accountability. We’ll need to find a way to combine human and machine intelligence. I don’t want to put this into the hands of some (ultimately unaccountable) “authoritative body” — though it would be interesting to have competing such organizations.

Danny, agreed that journalism is becoming visual, not just about words. It’s all just data in the end, but how we use it is the interesting question.

By: Danny L. McDaniel

Danny L. McDaniel — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:25:59 +0000

The article by Dan Gillmar is straight on but maybe journalism is an outdated term that should go the way of rotrary phones, black-and-white tv sets, typewriters, and Catholic nuns. Perhaps a better term for the communal endeavor would be “informational graphic arts.” The new role for “journalism” seems to be as much about the visual as the written word.

You can always tell the mind set of a baby-boomer. We say records, they say DVDs. Come to think about it, even DVD is an outdated term.

By: Pablo Manriquez

Pablo Manriquez — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:02:41 +0000

Wow. The framework described here really is an all out approach to confronting the civic literacy & meaningful engagement dilemmas. The only question I have then deals with content creators’ accountability. How is it established under this framework? Let’s say that, in an ideal scenario, everyone in a given community is equipped with an adequate information filtering skill set, and a good many seek to employ the wares of their information gathering into the civic discourse. How do these engaged community freelancers resolve the “he said; she said” conflicts that it seems would inevitable in any media market? Would gauging content accuracy & information authenticity it be left to content consumers (ie Huffington’s crowd knowledge theory), or is some sort of established, authoritative body needed?

By: Gillmor on improving journalism education « Virtualjournalist

Gillmor on improving journalism education « Virtualjournalist — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:09:43 +0000

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By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:01:00 +0000

Dave, couldn’t agree more. I’d add to that list a lot of folks who are no longer in school.

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The Salt-Box » Teaching Carnival 3.1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:38:44 +0000

[...] Dan Gillmor argues that, properly understood, journalism education is central to the liberal arts today. [...]

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:31:29 +0000

Every student needs one or two semesters of basic journalism. Think of how much better our society would be if they understood the basics of integrity and had some real lab experience at research and reporting.

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:43:25 +0000

Lisa, amen. Journalism schools should *absolutely* host these kinds of things, if at all possible.

By: Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:55:44 +0000

This is a great post. I think there’s a big role to be played by journalism schools in partnering more tightly with local media, just the way medical schools have tight linkages with local hospitals, and law schools run legal clinics that help the community with tenant law, entrepreneurship, and more.

Here in Boston BU now has the brand-new New England Center for Investigative Reporting. Think of it, maybe, as ProPublica on a local level, with deep partnerships with the local papers, radio, and television stations. It’s possible that part of the newsroom — in particular, enterprise reporting — could find a home AT journalism schools.

(NB: Joe Bergantino, one of the founders of NECIR, asked me to be on the board, which I’m delighted about, and I can’t wait to dig in).