Mindy McAdams has a succinct list of what journalism students need to learn, um, now.
Web stuff (XHTML and CSS, whatever those are...); audio reporting and editing; photo (graphy, editing, shop); video (check) and Soundslides, which is apparently ridiculously easy storyteling.
Bryan Murley suggests maps and blogging, too. Good points, all. I wish I knew what half of these things were without using the google.
It's part of a larger discussion across the Internets about what journalism education may be lagging in. Murley, at Innovation in College Media, even wrote up a syllabus for an all-encompassing multimedia course.
This can only help the journalists of tomorrow -- and today.
After all, everyone's pretty much in agreement that the Web is where it's at.
And isn' that part of a greater conversation about the need for entrepreneurship? I'd be interested to know how many j-schools are teaching students about creating their own news venues, whether they're part of a larger news organization or their own media venture.
They're talking about it in England, where there's a Journalism Enterprise & Entrepreneurship conference next week.
And Mark Glaser writes that journalists need to better exposed to the business side of the...business. Some schools, like CUNY, teach entrepreneurial journalism.
I think of all the possibilities that the Internet provides. Whether its ventures like Rocketboom or the Chi-Town Daily News or the Voice of San Diego, the Web is an bottomless cup of information coffee. I think if you localize a news venture, providing a very Webby product -- more than a blog, less than a newspaper -- you can tap into a niche that has yet to mature.
And thank God for the Web to teach me all about it.
