Subject: RE: J-Schools & the Info Hwy From: jvncnet!mcc.com!wilt (bill wilt) Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 21:12:07 +1154

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Dave's response to this:

>On Thu, 28 Apr 1994, Online Gardener wrote:
>
>> 
>> Perhaps, if the journalist is so motivated. I also feel that it is the
>> j-school's responsibility to teach students the basic tools necessary to
>> survive in the professsion -- and I think that today that means, to some
>> degree, teaching them about online publishing...
>
>> Julie Petersen | Online Gardener | WIRED | julie@wired.com >
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >
>
> I fully agree, Julie. While it certainly is important for J schools to
>continue teaching students the basics of reporting, writing, editing and
>ethics, we also must teach them about the tools that can help them do
>their jobs. 
>
>Here at the University of Florida, we're offering courses in electronic 
>publishing, computer assisted reporting, accessing the electronic 
>community, electronic newspaper design, and, beginning next fall, applied 
>electronic publishing, a course in which students will form the core 
>staff of an electronic newspaper.
>
>J schools, IMHO, should lead, not follow.
>
>                                        --dave
>
>
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>David Carlson               gigabit@ufl.edu        On leave from:
>University of Florida                              The Albuquerque Tribune
>College of Journalism and Communications           Home of The Electronic Trib
>Gainesville, Fl. 32611 (904) 846-0171              An interactive newspaper
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I'd also add, try to kick up the number of non-j-courses to at least half
the class-load. The tools are absolutely neccesary to have--along with a
mindset that says, I'm the journalist; computer tools are my assistants;
wherever I go, I'll make it a point to make certain they're the best they
can be, to give me the most free time I can have to worry about content and
coverage.

Which is going to be an even harder task when every story has hyperlinks to
the morgue--It'll soon not be possible to say, "well, that edition's been
put to bed; let's go for a well-deserved brew!"  Because they'll never be
done (Image, even weeklies become like AP, Reuters, UPI, "a deadline every
minute"--except it'll be "a log-on (from a reader) every minute".  I
shudder to think that folks will once again have to work the kind of shifts
Newsday used to have (copy desk, 8:00 and 8:30 PM to 3:00 and 3:30 AM. 
Drive in to Manhattan with the rising sun at your back, never catch a wink
of sleep that's under cover of night.  We got so's we had some real
sympathy for the rest of the "service industry" who kept the world
"working" while others slept.  (entertainers, police, sanitation, waiters &
cooks, newspaper folk, broadcasting folk, what else?)

end, random recommendations and recollections.

bill wilt
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