Today was the first day of our redesigned core course at the UBC School of Journalism in Vancouver. Entitled Multiplatform Journalism, it seeks to instruct the students in the key intellectual and practical skills they will need to operate as a professional journalist in a multimedia industry.
The course aims to move away from training the students for jobs as a print journalist or as a radio journalist. Instead we are training the students to be journalists, to learn and understand how to tell stories using all media to their fullest potential.
This video with Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jennifer Lin sums up why this kind of journalism education is needed. She has been a reporter for 25 years but recently realised that if “I don’t update my skills, I’m going to be obsolete.”
Her advice to students: “If you want to be a journalist, if you want to be a newspaper reporter, you need to know not only how to write stories, but tell stories visually … this is the future.”
(Via The X Degree)
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