Recently Jerry Ceppos, dean of the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, wrote an online post on what’s next for journalism education.
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He mentioned that the best journalism schools will improve in the following ways:
1. Being famous for something specific.
2. Encouraging students to study additional majors and minors to gain specialization in a topic.
3. Teaching journalism students basic statistics to be used for reporting.
4. Teaching students to question news sources.
5. Encouraging long-form reporting.
6. Working with journalism professionals.
7. Pushing ethics education.
You can read the full description of each topic on his post here.