In the rush to build up training for digital skills, some journalism schools have asked students to go wide instead of deep, argues the dean of academic affairs of Columbia’s j-school.
The executive director of Northwestern’s Knight News Innovation Lab says j-schools need to teach students to be open-minded about their skills — and that means learning at least the basics of programming.
The Knight Foundation’s Newton writes about the impact of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative, which has tried to improve the quality of instruction and research at the United States’ journalism schools. Eric Newton
Beckett, Lois. "ProPublica and Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 class at NYU team up to build — and share — “a better explainer”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Dec. 2010. Web. 25 Sep. 2023.
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Beckett, L. (2010, Dec. 1). ProPublica and Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 class at NYU team up to build — and share — “a better explainer”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 25, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/12/propublica-and-jay-rosens-studio-20-class-at-nyu-team-up-to-build-and-share-a-better-explainer/
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Beckett, Lois. "ProPublica and Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 class at NYU team up to build — and share — “a better explainer”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified December 1, 2010. Accessed September 25, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/12/propublica-and-jay-rosens-studio-20-class-at-nyu-team-up-to-build-and-share-a-better-explainer/.
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