New CCMS and New Media Institutions!

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 [...]

Have we missed the point about the demise of journalism?

There is a lot of talk, globally, about why journalism is in the state it is. Some point a finger at politics, others culture, others economics and many say WWW! So what is it? How do we even begin to think about the change that is happening in our communication landscape? I point you to [...]

The new world of work

THE 2009 DALTON CAMP LECTURE IN JOURNALISM Listen One of the toughest parts of working in education is knowing that you are teaching a group of students of which some will go into careers that at this exact moment do not exist. So, the question has to be, am I giving them the skills they [...]

Smart Journalism

Today the way we do journalism is developing before our eyes and many reporters do not even see it happening! Smart phones are making the distribution of news and opinion NEW. In the past I have called what is coming iJournalism but now I realize the new technology enables journalism is smart journalism! Smart phones [...]

Journalists need retraining, sort of!

Today more than ever journalists need to be retrained on how to connect their stories to their multiple audiences. The problem faced by journalists today is very simply that their occupation is transforming and they do not know how to transform along with it. When we academics talk about the changes taking place to journalism [...]

The New Face of Journalism I Imagine.

I believe journalism is in a crisis situation, the crisis of being irrelevant. I believe that journalism is on the brink of becoming irrelevant as a field of study NOT because students are abandoning the field of study, but because the professors and practitioners of the trade are unable to grasp, see, live, adapt to [...]

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