In an attempt to give students a taste of what it's really like in a newsroom, journalism professors at St. Michael's College in Colchester are trying a new, unprecedented teaching technique — they're laying off their students. This year the kids are getting pink slips instead of report cards.
Ha! Kidding.
The profs are making a change, though, according to What's Good blogger Tyler Machado, a junior at St. Mike's who's studying journalism.
St. Michael's College is served by a pair of student news publications: The Defender, a traditional print newspaper, and The Echo,an online magazine (for which I served as tech editor this pastsemester).... This is about to change, though, as thespring 2009 semester will see The Defender and The Echo produced by onemerged staff...
Themove is largely designed to provide journalism majors with the widerange of media experience they need to graduate into today's journalismworld. No longer is it good enough for a reporter to know how to takegood notes and write a print story on deadline. The trend now is for"backpack reporters" — journalists who can write, record audio, takepictures and video, and craft a full media package for a story for aprint setting and for the Web.
Seven Days — giving you the full media package since 1995. New slogan? What do you think? Ok, so we didn't actually have a website until 2000, but still.
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