From the comments to a previous post (why do so few j-school students plan to go into online news?), I’ll point you to Rob Pongsajapan’s blog, where he wrote on future online journalists, or the lack thereof, and also an e-media tidbit by Steve Outing: lack of innovation in student online journalism.
Ralph offers this possible explanation:
At the U of Mississippi, it might have something to do with the fact the journalism department does not offer a single class in online journalism. It’s tough to get interested in something students know nothing of.
Hmmm. I wonder how many schools offer nothing approaching an online journalism class. I will say that I have taught a class called Internet Publications twice (it’s offered every two years at our small school). And as I’m preparing to teach it this spring, I’ve found a very small pool of potential textbooks, although there was much more available this year than the first time I taught this in 2002.
It seems to me that online journalism would benefit from a sort of wiki textbook project.
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