A Comment About

What Journalism Schools Should Be Teaching

January 2, 2008 - 1:00 am - by Steve Boriss
Per Andreas
2008-01-02 14:58:34

These are some good ideas, but a major part of the current curriculum for journalist schools will be valid in the future as well. The basic principles of news journalism does not change, and they need to be learned.

I disagree with the statement that internet journalism should be shorter. Titles must obviously be catchy, due to the competition for clicks. But, contrary to popular belief, I think the internet have lots of potential when it comes to long articles. The absent of physical barriers should imply longer – not shorter – stories (linkage considered too). And I have seen that the long stories gets far more hits than expected….