Are students taught to write for online?

Not according to Steve Borris anyway who writes

The problem is that the winning formula taught in journalism schools is a loser on the web. Journalists are trained to write in a boring style – in a detached and objective manner with a serious and authoritative tone. They are also taught to write in a boring format — an “inverted pyramid” with the key points at the top and content becoming less and less interesting the deeper you get.

An interesting point Steve and it was the pyramid style that we were introduced to firstly on my course.I can vouch for the fact that the style gets ingrained in the brain and it can be very difficult to braek out of it.

However to be fair to our course,the second year combines the teaching of other print styles and well as web writing.Perhaps ten it is a case of only some journalism schools