I want your help deciding what the perfect j-school curriculum would look like.
The basics would be a basic intro to journalism course, a reporting course, a copy editing course, a law course and a media ethics course. Also, an internship is required for graduation. After that, we’ll decide what students really need to learn.
What courses should round out the required courses? What skills are needed? What electives should be offered? What kind of non-journalism courses should be required (Statistics for instance)?
We need to develop modern journalists who can report in a variety of mediums. We need people who are Web natives. We need entrepreneurs who will work in the new media that will increasingly replace the mainstream media.
In short, we need radically different journalists than we are getting from today’s journalism schools.