Journalism Education's Broader, Deeper Mission

PBS by Dan Gillmor | Feb. 7, 2009 (Opinion)

Accepting an award from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School for Journalism & Mass Communication several months ago, former PBS NewsHour host Robert McNeil called journalism education probably "the best general education that an American citizen can get" today.

Perhaps he was playing to his audience, at least to a degree. Many other kinds of undergraduate degree programs could lay claim to a similar bragging rights; a strong liberal ... Full Story »

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 by Patricia L'Herrou - Feb. 9, 2009

wonderful suggestions/ideas in this piece which if implemented could strengthen our democracy: teaching better journalism to anyone, including journalists, as a model for how to evaluate all news/sources of news. many projects toward this end are noted and linked. the most important point here may be that of offering this type of course to students/children at all levels.

the principals included here could be expanded to include newstrust criteria for evaluation

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