{"id":64162,"date":"2022-08-01T01:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=64162"},"modified":"2022-08-01T01:22:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:22:16","slug":"how-do-we-teach-journalism-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/how-do-we-teach-journalism-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we teach journalism today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Traditionally, knowing how to write and having a good agenda were the main skills that a journalist who started working in a newsroom had to prove.\u00a0The context has changed.\u00a0Active audiences and multiplication of offers characterize the market.<\/span><\/p>\n

Journalism tries to adapt to the demands of new audiences, increasingly more dispersed.\u00a0The media wants to capture your attention with the use of digital technologies.\u00a0That is, for example, the objective of an infographic on how the covid-19 virus spreads in a room.<\/span><\/p>\n

A television presenter, without moving from the set, is located inside the United States Congress thanks to virtual reality.\u00a0A radio program allows the audience to listen to it at any time or place.\u00a0These are just a few examples of how the digital transformation of journalism has brought new tasks and professional profiles to newsrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifty years of university tradition<\/strong><\/h4>\n

At the beginning of the 1971-1972 academic year, the first Faculties of Information Sciences were created.\u00a0They would be based at the\u00a0<\/span>Complutense University of Madrid<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span>Autonomous University of Barcelona<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0In that year, the same condition was officially recognized for the Institute of Journalism of the\u00a0<\/span>University of Navarra<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, created in 1958.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, this 2021-2022 academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the access of communication studies, and among them those of journalism, to the offer of university degrees in Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, the 42 public and private communication faculties that offer journalism studies in our country make great efforts to adapt to the new challenges of the digital society.\u00a0Figures such as SEO (specialist in improving the presence and visibility in internet search engines),\u00a0<\/span>community manager<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(specialist in social networks),\u00a0<\/span>content curator<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(content editor),\u00a0<\/span>digital manager<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(responsible for the image of the company on the internet), and so many other new tasks make their way into the newsrooms of the media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Technologies and large audiences<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The exercise of the journalistic profession requires having skills in the management of digital technologies.\u00a0Competencies and skills necessary to produce and disseminate content for large audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this context, the idea of \u200b\u200bteaching innovation prevails in university education: defining new forms of teaching and preventing teachers from being stuck in old and outdated practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bologna Declaration of 1999 promoted a radical transformation of European university systems during the first decade of the 21st century.\u00a0And the fundamental of this change was to give students the leading role in their own learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faced with that image that some of us have experienced in which the teacher came to the classroom, sat at the table and read us his manual, the teacher now has the obligation to update himself and use new ways of teaching, new teaching methodologies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The management of digital technologies should not be considered an end, but a tool that facilitates compliance with the conditions of proactivity and student participation.\u00a0And that complements teaching innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n

New ways of teaching<\/strong><\/h3>\n

These new ways of teaching that teachers are applying are very diverse and varied.\u00a0All of them are aimed at promoting the active commitment of students with their learning.\u00a0And they have in common the idea of\u00a0<\/span>\u200b\u200blearning by doing<\/span><\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0Some examples are:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Project learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Class work revolves around the development of a journalistic project that is professionally viable.\u00a0We can talk about a publication, a product or a service.\u00a0For example, launching a specialized magazine, in which students will have to design, layout and prepare its contents.\u00a0Or an original journalistic business project that would be viable in today’s society.\u00a0Even turning the classroom into a large digital newsroom.<\/span>\n

    A significant number of initiatives<\/span><\/a>\u00a0have been carried out in recent decades\u00a0.\u00a0Most of the cases take place in the classroom and it is difficult to obtain statistics on these practices.\u00a0However, there are more and more forums in which these forms of teaching are shared.\u00a0It is about sharing good experiences with other teachers and that they know how to teach in the classroom how to work in the media.<\/span><\/li>\n

  2. Service learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>This is one of the most widespread<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and longest-running teaching methodologies\u00a0in university teaching of journalism.\u00a0In the application of this way of teaching, students carry out projects linked to social groups with which they relate in their own daily lives: associations, interest groups and, in general, non-profit entities.\u00a0They are offered professional solutions that those who could not afford in the communication market.\u00a0Among others, publicize their activities, interact with the media, design campaigns, etc.<\/span>\n

    For example,\u00a0<\/span>two professors<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from the Complutense University of Madrid commissioned their students to design an awareness campaign about Africa.\u00a0The students worked with NGOs and other groups to produce informative materials.\u00a0The initiative ended with the organization of an event called the Africa Exists Convention.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And so, somewhere between the cold digital technologies and the heat of social commitment, it is how we are trying to teach journalism today in the university.<\/span><\/p>\n

    At this time, the transformation of the media is evident.\u00a0Experts speak of a future with many doubts and few certainties.\u00a0They only agree that the future will be digital.\u00a0Therefore, the training of future journalists cannot be anchored in the uses and manners of the 20th century.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Author Bios: <\/strong>Maria del Carmen Garcia Galera is Full Professor of Journalism and Manuel Martinez Nicholas is Professor of Communication both at Rey Juan Carlos University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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