Comments on: Good News

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:30:34 +0000

As far as I know, most of them use intern programs with local papers, which would be of little use. The apprenticeship model has worked for centuries, and it is a better way to learn a trade than a classroom.

One of the problems I noticed during my extremely short career in radio was the equipment in college was much older that the equipment used in commercial radio. I ran into the same problem in the computer science program.

By: Len Cleavelin

Len Cleavelin — Wed, 03 May 2006 15:48:17 +0000

Interesting…. The Columbia Missourian, the daily (well, 6 days/week) paper for Columbia, is staffed by Mizzou Journalism students. Mizzou owns KOMU-TV (the local NBC affiliate), and the J-School students staff the newsroom there, and Mizzou (like many other universities) owns the local NPR affilliate (KBIA) and sends J-School students through the newsroom there. In addition, the Mizzou J-School also runs its own, student staffed advertising agency (for the PR/advertising courses and majors) and also runs a number of other media outlets at which students pick up professional experience. See:

http://journalism.missouri.edu/about/media.html

for a rundown.

I wonder how many other J-schools do that kind of hands on training?

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Wed, 03 May 2006 05:31:40 +0000

I think that was quite an amazing thing to do. The publisher has taken a thoughtful and helpful path!