A year-long study of journalism education directed by Betty Medgser produced a report called 'Winds of Change: Whither Journalism Education?' that reveals that the trend is toward training general communicators rather that journalists. Journalism teachers with advanced degrees are replacing teachers with professional experience in the field. Programs are emphasizing mass communications theory i…
Journalism education in colleges in the 1990s has existed on a high level since 20 years back and it provides newsrooms with 80% of their staff. Journalism courses in colleges have been observed to be more relevant to jobs in newspaper offices than in broadcast media where the former have thrice the number of jobs as compared to the latter. The low salaries in some offices are among some existi…
Students' communication skills can be sharpened through a communication across the curriculum program which develops community service learning (CSL) projects. Students are required to perform certain services for a nonprofit group under the CSL project. The organization itself can determine its needs or the business communications professor can suggest services which the students can do for th…
One purpose of this paper is to present a concept of intercultural communication skills. It describes the international online debate as a method of long distance learning in marketing and management education, and as a way to promote the discourse about sustainability. While such online debates have been part of the curriculum at a few U.S. and German universities for some time, they were intr…
Information technologies used in the workplace, such as videoconferencing and the Internet, have become available to educational institutions as well. When used for distance learning, these technologies can make education more widely available by breaking geographic and time boundaries. But like television and computing before it, distance learning may demand new instructional approaches. Takin…
It is possible to consider the relationship between official authorities and journalism in Iraq during the royal reign one of the most problematic issues, where these authorities endeavored to obstruct the work of journalism and restrict its freedom for the sake of imposing de facto. But it does not come to their minds that preventing journalism and muffling its freedom is like changing the rea…