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Jessdrkn: New page: Participant list is incomplete. If you were in this session and you are not listed, please include your name and title. --Jessica Durkin Jessica Durkin (moderator), InOtherNews.us, and Wi...

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New page: Participant list is incomplete. If you were in this session and you are not listed, please include your name and title. --Jessica Durkin Jessica Durkin (moderator), InOtherNews.us, and Wi...

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Participant list is incomplete. If you were in this session and you are not listed, please include your name and title. --Jessica Durkin

Jessica Durkin (moderator), InOtherNews.us, and Wiki notes poster;
Jacqui Banaszynski, Poynter contributor and Reynolds Journalism Institute instructor;
John Hamer, director Washington News Council;
Mike Fancher, ASNE, and retired Seattle Times executive editor;
Tim Gleason, dean, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications;
Lawrence Pintak, dean, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University;
reporter (don't have name) from Xconomy.com;
Maureen

The discussion was videotaped by CJ. Captured on iPhone.

Started the session with key question: Why are students applying for j-schools? With fewer traditional media jobs on the horizon, are journalism schools, especially the expensive ones, doing "educational malpractice," as has been referred? What are journalism schools teaching?

Notes:
Educators need to be incubators: Communicate in ways that enhance the public discourse.
NIE of the future? Civics in journalism. Is their value in this a disappearing animal? Teams of students professionalize journalism.
Needs: money; fitting new classes into the curriculum; emphasize the mind set, then the skill set.
Students need to know: how to report, write, interview, and to be able to do those things quickly; have an area of expertise.
J-schools need to teach the soul of journalism, not just journalism practices, but journalism underpinnings. There is a tension/debate at schools about how to prepare tomorrow's journalists. Should they be taught for the job market, or fundamental journalistic values about writing, critical thinking, storytelling, researching?

Other discussion:
A recent Ph.D graduate from the Missouri school talked about the frustration with the gap in communication theory and practice. Others seconded her comments. Someone brought up bringing back a Freedom Forum-type group, where news companies or other entities create a location for theorists apply theories to practice. There was lament about only writing for academic audiences in communications journals. One person proposed taking journalism faculty sabbaticals in newsrooms.

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	Participant list is incomplete. If you were in this session and you are not listed, please include your name and title. --Jessica Durkin		Participant list is incomplete. If you were in this session and you are not listed, please include your name and title. --Jessica Durkin

	Jessica Durkin (moderator), InOtherNews.us, and Wiki notes poster;		* Jessica Durkin (moderator), InOtherNews.us, and Wiki notes poster;
	Jacqui Banaszynski, Poynter contributor and Reynolds Journalism Institute instructor;		* Jacqui Banaszynski, Poynter contributor and Reynolds Journalism Institute instructor;
	John Hamer, director Washington News Council;		* John Hamer, director Washington News Council;
	Mike Fancher, ASNE, and retired Seattle Times executive editor;		* Mike Fancher, ASNE, and retired Seattle Times executive editor;
	Tim Gleason, dean, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications;		* Tim Gleason, dean, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications;
	Lawrence Pintak, dean, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University;		* Lawrence Pintak, dean, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University;
	reporter (don't have name) from Xconomy.com;		* reporter (don't have name) from Xconomy.com;
	~~Maureen~~		* Maureren Skowran, Albuquerque, N.M., Poynter contributor, JTM steward, etc.

	The discussion was videotaped by CJ. Captured on iPhone.		The discussion was videotaped by CJ. Captured on iPhone.
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	Started the session with key question: Why are students applying for j-schools? With fewer traditional media jobs on the horizon, are journalism schools, especially the expensive ones, doing "educational malpractice," as has been referred? What are journalism schools teaching?		Started the session with key question: Why are students applying for j-schools? With fewer traditional media jobs on the horizon, are journalism schools, especially the expensive ones, doing "educational malpractice," as has been referred? What are journalism schools teaching?

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	Educators need to be incubators: Communicate in ways that enhance the public discourse.		Educators need to be incubators: Communicate in ways that enhance the public discourse.
	NIE of the future? Civics in journalism. Is their value in this a disappearing animal? Teams of students professionalize journalism.		NIE of the future? Civics in journalism. Is their value in this a disappearing animal? Teams of students professionalize journalism.
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	J-schools need to teach the soul of journalism, not just journalism practices, but journalism underpinnings. There is a tension/debate at schools about how to prepare tomorrow's journalists. Should they be taught for the job market, or fundamental journalistic values about writing, critical thinking, storytelling, researching?		J-schools need to teach the soul of journalism, not just journalism practices, but journalism underpinnings. There is a tension/debate at schools about how to prepare tomorrow's journalists. Should they be taught for the job market, or fundamental journalistic values about writing, critical thinking, storytelling, researching?

	Other discussion:		Other discussion --
	A recent Ph.D graduate from the Missouri school talked about the frustration with the gap in communication theory and practice. Others seconded her comments. Someone brought up bringing back a Freedom Forum-type group, where news companies or other entities create a location for theorists apply theories to practice. There was lament about only writing for academic audiences in communications journals. One person proposed taking journalism faculty sabbaticals in newsrooms.		A recent Ph.D graduate from the Missouri school talked about the frustration with the gap in communication theory and practice. Others seconded her comments. Someone brought up bringing back a Freedom Forum-type group, where news companies or other entities create a location for theorists apply theories to practice. There was lament about only writing for academic audiences in communications journals. One person proposed taking journalism faculty sabbaticals in newsrooms.

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Maurreen: Added myself

Jessdrkn: New page: Participant list is incomplete. If you were in this session and you are not listed, please include your name and title. --Jessica Durkin Jessica Durkin (moderator), InOtherNews.us, and Wi...