We are the Multimedia Journalism class (J334/J395) at the University of Texas at Austin. We are interested in monitoring online journalism and blogs.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Online Publishing/Journalism in Higher Education

I have realized recently that there is a major lack of sufficient education opportunities for online publishing and multimedia journalism. Just think about it: in our class so far this semester we have covered such a wide range of topics and learned so much that it could really be split into two classes (one on the journalism aspect itself and another on the actual publishing, such as in Flash). To get to the point: there need to be more classes that help students to get experience with online publishing, writing for the web, and journalism on the web. I think the lack of such classes in the University is a problem that needs to be fixed. I almost feel jipped by the University as a journalism major in the multimedia sequence.

Which classes would you suggest for addition to the course offerings in multimedia journalism?

I think there should be classes on HTML, PHP, Java, and other languages for publishing on the Web. There should be a class on writing for the Web, etc. Any other suggestions?

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