Redefining journalism education in Canada

Our Schools, Our Selves | October 1, 2007| | Copyright

Canada's journalism schools have since their inception defined themselves as servants of two masters: the news industry, which demands graduates with the requisite technical skills for entrylevel reporting positions, and the university, which demands adherence to the academy's tripartite mission of research, teaching, and community service. This structural tension has been held together by the persistent belief that journalism is a core institution of democracy, and therefore journalism, even if taught in a vocational manner, constitutes a suitable field of study at the university level. By ...

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