In this article, Justin Ellis talks about how journalism is being taught in some schools and how he thinks it should be taught. Ellis describes the "teaching hospital" route of teaching journalism as a model, offering students real world experience for their (hopefully) future careers as journalists. However, this model could be detrimental to those studying journalism, argues Ellis. He says that the "teaching hospital" method reinforces practices that do not help the industry and do not respond to the current change in journalism.
That's where entrepreneurial journalism comes in!
Some argue that more innovative and new techniques should be used to give students a head start on dealing with the changing industry. Personally, I think both schools of thought are pretty important. On one hand, the "teaching hospital" style is more classic (from what the article was saying) and give students a basic, background understanding on how journalism works. I think everyone studying journalism should know at least the basics of writing, reporting, interviewing and writing to a deadline. However, I see how teaching journalism the way it was taught 25 years ago could be detrimental to the future of the field. Journalism is changing. I think everybody, even people who are NOT journalism majors can see that. Therefore, I think it's important for people (especially journalism student) to be aware of these changes and how to adapt to them so we can market ourselves more effectively when we are thrown out into the real world of jobs and work... ugh!
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