Journalism Education Fights Back

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The Next Generation

“As partisan outlets proliferate, students raised on faux news will enter our classrooms cocooned in their own biases and conditioned to mistake ridicule for engaged contention. By creating an appetite for critical engagement, universities will challenge those insular tendencies. Drawing on their experience in our classrooms, labs, and libraries, and mining the rich resources of the Web, our students will become citizen-journalists. In that role they will sort fact from fabulation and unmask abuses of power and the public trust.”

—Kathleen Hall Jamieson, media scholar and director,
Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania,
Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 15, 2009

Illustration by Dave Plunkett for The Chronicle Review

Editor’s Note: So journalism’s NOT dead?

FROM THE OH, SH*$@#!! DEPARTMENT: Oh, dear. Yesterday, Columbia Journalism Review posted a piece fact-checking La Palin’s roguish new “book.” A few minutes later, this: “Dear reader, In the promo for the piece about, uh, fact checking: Sarah Palin was not a vice president, as you know. She ran for the office. Apologies.” —Columbia Journalism Review

WORD CARTOONIST: Announcing the launch of Nate Pratt, the WORD’s new occasional editorial cartoonist. See URL.

CALLING ALL UTAH STATE U. JCOM ALUMS: Where are you? We're updating our alumni list. Please send your current position, title, contact info (including email), graduation year and any news to ted.pease@usu.edu.

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