What’s going on?

Today’s media is like an adolescent. It thinks it’s grown up, but it’s clear changes are happening and it is trying to figure out how to deal with those changes. The voice-cracking maturation of 21st century media is being debated at countless blogs, in newspaper boardrooms and in the classroom.

Journalism schools at Columbia and Northwestern are taking close looks at their programs, hoping that they can evolve and develop journalists who are ready to take on the challenges present in today’s markets. Other schools, like CUNY and DePaul, have opened the doors of new journalism schools, with the express purpose of teaching new media, entrepreneurship and how traditional reporting fits into the mold. Still other j-schools are stuck in the past.

What do I hope to do here? Very little. Instead, I want professors and students of journalism to tell the world what they are thinking. What’s working at your school? What needs tweaking? Are you doing anything groundbreaking?

This blog is meant to be a collaboration of many voices. Let’s see if we can begin to solve the problems facing our business.