Are journalism schools adapting?

Thanks to Dave Lee for pointing me towards this article on the Editors Weblog.Apart from Dave lapping up his well deserved publicity having been called

"probably Britain’s leading student journalist blogger"

Come on Roy-why don't you read mine sometimes?

The article includes a discussion between Jeff Jarvis,Roy Greenslade and Keith Woods looking at the state of student journalism.

I thought that this from Roy in the face of learning the terchnologies of the New Media was excellent

If we are to have professional journalism in the future, we must uphold standards. We must teach our students and show that journalism is still useful at a time when everybody can publish their ‘news.’

From Woods

They'll continue to need the basics of reporting and storytelling, but students will also need to have a fundamental familiarity with software and some knowledge of how and why to use audio, video and still pictures to tell stories.

There can be a rush towards the new technology,it is going to play an important role for all of us but as with any profession,the basics must be mastered first.

Here on the journalism course at UCLAN I feel that they have got the balance just right in spending a good proportion of the time setting down the basics and recognising that the new media is simply an alternative way to communicate.