{"id":954,"date":"2018-03-26T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?page_id=954"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:41:50","slug":"about-journalism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/about-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"About journalism education"},"content":{"rendered":"

This site<\/strong> provides information about teaching and practicing journalism for students and for members of the community who may be interested. Our mission is to serve democracy and the public interest by providing factual\u00a0 information and a forum for the public exchange of opinion.\u00a0 \u00a0The values we hold are embodied in the SPJ Code of Ethics<\/a>, which are, briefly, to seek the truth, act independently, minimize harm, and be accountable.<\/p>\n

About journalism education\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original call for college level journalism education<\/a> came from former Confederate general Robert E. Lee at the time he was president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee University in Virginia). Educated journalists were needed to rebuild the American South after the Civil War, he said.<\/p>\n

Although the W&L program did not last in the 19th century, a four year college program was established in 1908 at the University of Missouri, and newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer established a program in his 1911 bequest to Columbia University (New York) along with the famed Pulitzer Prizes for public service journalism.<\/p>\n

Journalism educators have an accrediting council, the ACEJMC, and their nine detailed standards are available<\/a> online.\u00a0 Similar standards for high school journalism are found at the Journalism Education Association site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are 110 ACEJMC accredited journalism programs in American universities\u00a0 \u00a0and about double that number of non-ACEJMC accredited programs, according to a Knight Foundation report<\/a>.\u00a0 Although Radford’s journalism program would meed all of the curricular requirements, it would not meet all of the structural requirements of ACEJMC accreditation.\u00a0 Radford journalism faculty have been advocates for the additional spending that would be required for an ACEJMC accredited program.\u00a0 It’s important to add that RU programs are fully accredited through state and national educational agencies such as the Southern Association of Colleges.<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Newton of the Knight Foundation said not long ago that journalism education should take a teaching hospital approach<\/a>. While many things are changing in journalism education, he said …<\/p>\n

“The one thing that isn\u2019t changing is the why<\/em> of journalism, why free people need independent thinkers, people who will engage on behalf of us all in the fair, accurate, contextual search for truth. We assume the people here already believe that an understanding of current events is essential if free people are to run their lives and their communities.”<\/p>\n

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