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Should we still be teaching journalism…?

Paul Bradshaw at City has ‘produced’ (and that word is carefully chosen) another inspired blog post, pulling together the views of a number of journalists and academics to answer this question:

Should journalism degrees still prepare students for a news industry that doesn’t want them?

Go read it, it’s excellent. I’ve only a little to add, which I’ve posted there, but will reproduce here. Then I’m having a three day break from the blog. I’ve just read about a quarter of a million words, in journal articles, book chapters and blogs, for a book chapter I’m working on (on media and climate change), and my mind is frying!. So will be back next week. And here’s my comment on Paul’s blog: More »

Tags: industry, Journalism, news, teaching journalism