TEACHING JOURNALISM HISTORY TO JOURNALISTS
| Autor: | Andie Tucher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Journalism Practice. 5:551-565 |
| ISSN: | 1751-2794 1751-2786 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17512786.2011.601905 |
| Popis: | This article is rooted in the experience of helping to develop and introduce a range of required and elective journalism-history courses into a professional school whose jam-packed one-year curriculum has always been dominated by hands-on training in the skills and techniques of the craft. Some of the challenges have been practical and logistical. We decided early on, for instance, that all assignments would involve reading or viewing works of journalism, not secondary sources, but it was harrowing to have to choose no more than three dozen or so pieces to represent three centuries’ worth of evolution. And since our limited time required us to focus mainly on journalism history in the United States, we had to decide how elaborately to explain events like the US Civil War that American students had studied from the cradle but that some of our international students could not date within a half-century. But the most interesting, and rewarding, aspect of these courses was watching the changes in the students... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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