Five Challenges Facing Journalism Education in the UK

Q2 Social Sciences

Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI:10.1177/1326365X18812508

C. Frost

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Journalism and journalism education has been through a time of massive change over the past 20 years as the media has got to grips with the technology revolution, learning how to deal with the benefits and problems that the move from analog to digital has brought. Now education needs to look to the future to predict what’s coming and to prepare teachers and students for even more change as the interface between humans and the digital world becomes ever closer. Journalism education also needs to take more seriously the need to not just train journalism students but to give them the tools to deal with a fast-moving world where things can change almost month by month. Students can now expect a career of up to 60 years duration and learning how to predict the future, deal with the latest innovations, manage change and identify what is important and what is merely transitory; a glossy distraction rather than a change in basic truths will be key skills for success. Training simply for today’s world is no longer good enough and lets our students down – students need skills for a future that will be more different than any sci-fi artefact film can imagine.

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英国新闻教育面临的五大挑战

在过去的20年里，新闻和新闻教育经历了一个巨大的变革时期，因为媒体已经掌握了技术革命，学会了如何处理从模拟到数字的转变带来的好处和问题。现在，随着人类与数字世界之间的联系越来越紧密，教育需要展望未来，预测即将发生的事情，并为教师和学生迎接更多变化做好准备。新闻教育还需要更加认真地对待这样一个需求，即不仅要培训新闻专业的学生，还要为他们提供工具，让他们应对一个快速变化的世界，在这个世界上，事情几乎每个月都会发生变化。学生们现在可以期待长达60年的职业生涯，学习如何预测未来，处理最新的创新，管理变化，并确定什么是重要的，什么只是暂时的；成功的关键技能是巧妙地分散注意力，而不是改变基本事实。仅仅为当今世界进行培训已经不够好了，这让我们的学生失望了——学生们需要技能来创造一个比任何科幻电影都更不同的未来。

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期刊介绍： Asia Pacific Media Educator is an international refereed journal published twice a year by SAGE Publications (New Delhi) in collaboration with the School of the Arts, English and Media, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong in Australia. The journal follows international norms and procedures of blind peer reviewing by scholars representing a wide range of multi-disciplinary areas. APME focuses on generating discussions and dialogues among media educators, researchers and journalists. Content ranges from critical commentaries and essays to research reports and papers that contribute to journalism theory development and offer innovative ideas in improving the standard and currency of media reportage, teaching and training specific to the Asia Pacific region. Papers that integrate media theories with applications to professional practice, media training and journalism education are usually selected for peer review. APME also carries a Q&A section with book authors. APME takes conventional book reviews to a more creative level where reviewers directly engage with authors to understand the process that authors take in researching and writing the book, clarify their assumptions and pose critical questions.