New news, new ideas: deans explore the challenges of educating the journalists of the future
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Journalism education is responding to the fact that the number of players in the news business has risen significantly, according to David Rubin, dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. Journalism schools must find ways of partnering with real media outlets, according to Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. The strongly emphasized decline in journalistic standards has been greatly exaggerated, according to Ken Bode, dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Publication Name: Media Studies Journal
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 1057-7416
Year: 1999
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Prospects for the future
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International communication systems can become popular if it effectively markets issues of value internationally. Consumers will ultimately be paying for these technological services, issues of importance may get undervalued in the glut of entertainment programs which will draw the maximum mileage. The information technology would bring in the forefront the concept of infotainment, but steps must be taken to safeguard the interests of the minorities and continual efforts made to maintain high journalistic standards.
Publication Name: Media Studies Journal
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 1057-7416
Year: 1995
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A decade of change
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The proliferation of television programs analyzing the current affairs has led to the American public's incapacity to independently judge the issues. Increased television stations are owned by non-journalists who cater to the commercial instincts of the wider audience, harming quality reporting. Racial discrimination has percolated the media, and journalism has lost its sacred halo that distinguished it in the 1970s and the 1980s.
Publication Name: Media Studies Journal
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 1057-7416
Year: 1995
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