Thursday, April 28, 2016
Ryerson Journalism Research Centre
Ivor Shapiro is the Chair of the Ryerson School of Journalism. This is a lightly edited version of his remarks delivered at the end of the Journalism Transformations colloquium on April 28, 2016. “The Audience Revolution” was the title of the plenary that opened this day-long colloquium. Recast from a label to include a verb,…
As a function of new conceptions of the audience and the importance of technology (as above) journalists’ work functions are no longer covered by descriptors such as reporter, editor and producer; today’s range of job titles include product manager, audience developer, communities editor, and web/mobile developer. Carrie Brown (City University of New York) and Rich Gordon (Northwestern…
In a discussion led by guest experts Carrie Brown (CUNY) and Rich Gordon (Northwestern), invited guests are encouraged to share their observations and insights into the essential question: What is the value proposition of journalism education for an age where, aided in part by rapidly evolving technologies, anyone can be a journalist and in which…
Disruption in the media industry, as reflected in rapidly changing business models and news gathering and distribution practices, has been significantly driven by the breakneck pace of technological advances. Alex Watson (Telegraph Media Group) and Retha Hill (Arizona State University) lead a discussion on how emerging technologies have shaped their work and their organizations’ missions. Hill, who has worked…
Media scholars Kim Schrøder (Roskilde University) and Philip Napoli (Rutgers University) lead this discussion on journalism’s relationship with what Jay Rosen (2006) famously called “the people formerly known as the audience.” They will explore how the Internet and emerging technologies continue to transform conceptions about the news audience and how it interacts with journalism content. As principal investigator for the News Measures Research Project, Napoli…
In this public event, experts Alex Watson (Telegraph Media Group),Kim Schrøder (Roskilde University) and Philip Napoli (Rutgers University), will present the latest on transformations in audience and how technological innovations in journalism and publishing are at once responding to and advancing these changing needs. Retha Hill (Arizona State University) is the discussant. The Twitter hashtag for today’s event is #transformjrn Ryerson…
Journalism education means preparation for a career in journalism: true or false? The best answer is, sometimes. This paradigm – journalism education is preparation for a career in journalism – has been self-evident to most educators, students, and others since the discipline’s beginnings. Yet it has long been equally self-evident that a substantial number of journalism students’ futures…
After decades of research and development, virtual reality appears to be on the cusp of mainstream adoption. For journalists, the combination of immersive video capture and dissemination via mobile VR players is particularly exciting. It promises to bring audiences closer to a story than any previous platform. Read the Tow Center’s report on how two key…
(R)elationships, forms, and models?—?play themselves out in the curriculum and programs at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in various ways. I offer a description of the areas in which I work as an example of a few ways in which one school is trying to work in this age of change. Read this excerpt from…
If I were to lead a journalism school today, I’d want its mission to be: We make the media we need for the world we want. Not: We are an assembly line for journalism wannabes. The media we need could encompass investigative journalism, restorative narratives, soft-advocacy journalism, knowledge-based journalism, artisanal journalism, solutions journalism, civic journalism, entrepreneurial…