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
Garber, Megan. "Medill and McCormick launch a news innovation lab with $4.2 million in Knight funding." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Feb. 2011. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
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