New CCMS and New Media Institutions!

Posted on | June 2, 2010 | No Comments

Zayed University’s College of Communication and Media Sciences is reinventing itself, as of next year a brand new curriculum will be taught.

Some may ask why change?

The media environment is changing and many, including me, will say the change is for the good.

But others will say journalism is on a death march why even consider it as a career?

Journalism, the art of telling a story is not changing just the focus and delivery is changing and that change has a lot to do with technology, space and time.

There are a few people today who are saying the well worn corporate path to conglomerate journalism is not the way forward.

Wilf Dinnick of OpenFile is one of those people.

Wilf has suggested that what we need today to make journalism relevant is a true local focus, think your neighbourhood.

Wilf also suggested we need to think of journalists as curators of today’s social media.

How do we do this?

New paradigms and in the case of OpenFile a new journalism institution.

Wilf Dinnick talking about OpenFile.ca.

What Wilf has described in his conversation is the path ahead for journalism education in general and what we are doing at Zayed University in the CCMS program.

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