This book examines pressing debates concerning how and why journalism education should respond to digital changes in and around the industry, and questions market oriented ideology and civic responsibility in the field.
Brian Creech is an Associate Professor in the Journalism Department at Temple University's Lew Klein College of Media and Communication, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the faculty in the school's Media and Communication Ph.D. program and directs the school's teaching hospital-style journalism capstone, PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com, which produces hyperlocal news for and about underserved communities in Philadelphia.
1. Who can say what about journalism education? Institutional actors and fields of discourse 2. Training for precarity: Skills education and journalism crises 3. Disrupting j-school: Academic culture as an obstacle to innovation 4. Pedagogical visions of digital success: Program philosophies and curricular change 5. Educating journalists for a digital culture: Facing the central problems of the current era