This post is more than five years old. Links may rot, opinions may change, and context might be missing. Proceed with cautious optimism.Journalism 163, taught by Steve Sloan and Cynthia McCune (at least one section – are there others?), opens for business at SJSU this week. It’s hard to give this thing a name, and I don’t want to contribute any more than I already have to the handwringing and head-scratching over what it should be, or how it should be taught, but I’ll just call it a New Media class and leave it that.
I recommend you take it, friends, that I do, and wholeheartedly.
Why?
I’ll let Scoble throw a simple answer at you:
“The skills journalists will need in the future are going to be a lot more varied than just churning out good text. The better journalists are going to understand how to do that, create illustrations (or at least rough drawings that an artist will be able to take and fill out), capture audio, photos, and video, and edit all that together to tell a compelling story on the Web.”
Still not convinced?
Had a job interview lately?
At your next one, try telling the recruiter you can shoot photos, video, know html and css, produced a podcast for the student newspaper, and just started learning Flash.
No, I haven’t done all those things either, but this class is a great start.
There’s already a class blog set up for J163, and here’s a short podcast where Steve and Cynthia talk about what they’re up to.
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First class is Tuesday. We’re very excited about it. We have some great speakers planned including Scoble who is slated to come on the 12th of September. Check it out!