By Howard Finberg on Poynter, June 15 –
“As we think about the changes whipping through the media industry, there is a nearby storm about to strike journalism education.
The future of journalism education will be a very different and difficult future, a future that is full of innovation and creative disruption. And, I believe, we will see an evolution and uncoupling between the value of a journalism education and a journalism degree.”
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I will respond to Finberg’s speech at length elsewhere, but for starters, what does the title mean? Finberg actually does think journalism education can teach its way into and through the future: by online education, competency badges rather than course credits, etc. He certainly does not say that journalism education can’t adapt to the future, let alone suggest that it is going away.