\u201cTechnology, at first, greatly benefited the news media, and then it began to destroy it,\u201d said Joel Brinkley, Visiting Hearst Professional in Residence at Stanford\u2019s Graduate Program in Journalism (GPIJ), a subsidiary of the Department of Communication.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I started, there was no Internet, there was no e-mail\u2026 so when I worked for local papers, I worked from sort of a cocoon unless I subscribed to the New York Times or the Detroit Free Press,\u201d he continued. \u201cI had no idea what anybody else was doing. That\u2019s the way it was in the seventies and the eighties and pretty much into the early nineties.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2005, the journalism program\u2019s curriculum still trained students for the nineties newsroom. But now, the Internet is a centerpiece of Stanford\u2019s Graduate Program in Journalism. According to Acting Director Ann Grimes, during the past five years, the program has rewritten its curriculum to \u201ctrain students in old media values and digital media skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program\u2019s brochure now shows Internet cables above reams of newsprint on the cover and advertises a program that \u201cis actively engaged with next-generation media technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grimes said a big change is the integration of multimedia instruction with public issues reporting classes. For one course, students pick a Bay Area location where they do what Grimes calls \u201cold fashioned gumshoe reporting on city hall\u201d and publish their stories on the \u201cSilicon Valley Pulse\u201d website, where the stories are sometimes picked up by newspapers and are displayed on websites like Google News.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur capstone class in the spring is a class called \u201cDigital Media Entrepreneurship,\u201d she said. In this class, journalism students collaborate with Graduate School of Business (GSB) and engineering students to produce digital media ventures \u201cthat hopefully have a sustainable business model.\u201d She said this kind of class is mostly unique to Stanford, because students are immersed in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other thing that we\u2019re dong is we\u2019re encouraging our students to take advantage of the many interdisciplinary offerings that are on campus so that they can tailor their program to their interests,\u201d Grimes said. \u201cWe have students taking the design school boot camp. We have students taking CS105 \u2013 learning how to code. We have students taking the entrepreneurial ventures class at the GSB so that they can learn about the industry that they\u2019re entering.\u201d<\/p>\n
So that they find jobs after leaving the program, the GPIJ also strives to get its students\u2019 work recognized.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also working with different outside media organizations \u2013 the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Center for Investigative Reporting and Patch.com (an East Coast amateur news site) have all expressed varying levels of interest in our students here,\u201d Grimes said. \u201cSo increasingly we are getting our students to produce reports that are picked up or will be picked up by these larger media organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program also encourages students to take internships with outside organizations. Because the program is small \u2013 there are typically about 15 students per year \u2013 it tries to maximize students\u2019 opportunities and help them get the jobs in areas that they\u2019re interested in. This year, students are working at KQED (the Bay Area PBS radio station), VNet.com, Current TV, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Business Times. Students are also working at the Wall Street Journal, National Journal, Gigaom Network and Google News.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are still, of course, professional reporters working at large scale newspapers, but newspapers themselves now are multimedia enterprises, as are all journalistic enterprises,\u201d said Fred Turner, associate professor of Communication.<\/p>\n
The news media is changing rapidly, and the GPIJ prepares its students to adapt to the changing journalistic landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we need to do is let a thousand flowers bloom. And nobody\u2019s really sure yet which flowers are going to grow and which flowers aren\u2019t,\u201d Turner said. \u201cStudents who finish the program have a year of training \u2013 the core sequence is six courses, with three \u2018traditional journalism\u2019 nodes, and three additional nodes for training in new media.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJournalistic institutions are changing,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have to train our students for a world in which there are some newspapers, but there are a lot more startups. And we have to train our students for a startup world. That\u2019s really a challenge. And we\u2019re sure getting after it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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