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"Are some of the newsroom's most prized values contributing to journalism's continuing decline in credibility? What should replace these values to better reflect the complexities of modern media yet still embrace the core principles of journalism? What should be the standards of credible journalism in an age when all definitions of news are up for grabs?"

This article details three social media skills that the author of the blog "10,000 words" believes should be taught in Journalism school. The author believes that Social Media should be brought into the curriculum in these schools. This author's three points are that twitter is a "story machine", live teeting/facebook events is a skill, and that content scheduling is king. In my opinion, these three points are very interesting, and important in terms of the future of education.

"As journalist/programmer Stijn Debrouwere has argued in a persuasive essay about the challenges facing the news business, journalism isn't being disrupted just by different forms of journalism - it's being disrupted by things that don't even look like journalism"

"As we worked with our co-authors, listened to others and watched the contemporary circumstances, the first concept - seek truth and report it as fully as possible - remained primary. But the second principle - act independently - was problematic. Journalism is no longer the province of a homogenous group, once dubbed "the working press," whose financing is generated to produce journalism for its own sake. In the 21st century, journalism may come from think tanks and corporations, from advocacy groups and passionate advocates, from accidental witnesses and curious beginners, and more."

PBS MediaShift has written an excellent series looking at the way that journalism education and training are shifting. "Beyond J-School" examines how journalism education has had to change with the times, and includes two audio podcasts (with journalism profs/innovators), a video show, a post on teaching social media, a story about a "Journalist Law Program" and a look at how some students created their own mini-media empires while studying at college - no J-school necessary. Here are all the features in the series

In this week's journalism educators chat, Aaron Manfull, the Journalism Education Association's new media committee chair; Sara Nichols, journalism teacher at Whitney High School in Rocklin, Calif.; and Wendy Wallace, director of Poynter's High School Program, will lead a conversation about how to help journalism educators and students understand the importance of interacting with people on Web sites outside of their own

A short video that describes how citizen and traditional journalism can work together.

This video is helpful because it explains the difference between traditional journalism and citizen journalism. It talks about the rising growth and popularity of citizen journalism. Showing how everyday people are becoming journalists and writing newsworthy stories.

""We are in the second phase of disruption, and I think this job is a great place to think about and participate in some of the ways we go forward," he said. "I think the great digital journalism of our age has yet to be created. The cohort that is at Columbia now is the one that will be making the journalism that is going to shape our democracy: working on mining data sets, creating video that is not 2012, coming up with much more powerful ways of accruing and displaying information.""

"He discusses the app and his take on the future of journalism and the importance of local, unique stories in the survival of journalism. It's a short but insightful clip"

"The world of journalism isn't burning. The Internet is killing the old model, yes, but the new models are only starting to emerge. That's not destruction. It's change. And as brutal as that transition is at times, it's exciting to be a journalist right now to see how the change will play out. In the meantime, things will be messy for a while. The furor over things like Parker's wedding, the rush to judgment and subsequent retractions, the public lynchings on Twitter, the boiling over of conversational media into childish shouting matches, the shoddy reporting drowning out the good, the spurious opinion obscuring the boring old facts - these are going to be a part of the world of journalism. But in time we'll learn from our mistakes. None of this is happening because a journalist is real or fake. The change, and the chaos it's creating, is systemic. It's not personal. And when the dust settles, there will be a better balance between the old model of deeply reported journalism and the newer models of blogged opinion and social-media conversations."

This article is a good sources talking about where journalism and blogging are now and where it will be going in the future.

This gives good information about how blogging and journalism are very similar in their definition.

Tomorrow (Jan. 14, 2012) marks the one-year anniversary of Tunisia's liberation from 23 years of oppression under dictator Ben Ali. It was a liberation sparked by one man's shocking public protest against injustice through self-immolation and fueled by the power of citizen journalism and social media. During the last months of 2010, Tunisians captured footage of protests and government oppression and shared them with thousands via Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Within weeks, similar protests sprang up in Egypt, Libya and other Arab countries, giving birth to the Arab Spring. With the power of the media now in the hands of every citizen with a smartphone, questions about ethics and accuracy are working their way through the journalism industry -- how do we know what we see on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter is true? Who are the media watchdogs for a form of journalism rooted in unedited immediacy?

"While some of Gingras' points have come up in other recent talks elsewhere, he discussed at AEJMC in more detail what his vision for the future of journalism would mean for those charged with training the next generation of journalists. And, just as Google has dramatically changed the way we access information, so too would the vision Gingras described radically alter the ways journalism educators teach and inspire their students"

"Recently, 30 journalism and computer science students in Northwestern's Collaborative Innovation in Journalism and Technology class presented nine new media prototypes. The prototypes, developed in a 10-week quarter, cater to various audiences in the media equation - tools for journalists, software for publishers, and applications that could be useful or fun for media consumers. Occasionally, promising prototypes will be further developed by Knight Lab. If you missed the presentation, a summary of the apps and a note on what the teams have identified as their next steps, lies below. If you'd rather watch the archived live stream, that's available here."

"Despite all the debate about the future of journalism, not enough has been said about how we can better support freelance journalists and how best to adapt to a media landscape in which so many people are operating without the resources and backing of newsrooms. On Twitter, I asked freelancers to tell me what the future of journalism looks like to them. This is the first post in a series where I'll look at some of their responses. While people come to freelancing for a range of reasons, some by choice, some not, I found a few key themes in the responses I got."

Poynter will cultivate and incubate new entrepreneurial media models in the digital space; deepen its understanding of how citizens are consuming news in the digital era; create case studies that analyze and help the public understand the workings of the nontraditional news sector, known as the Fifth Estate, and train those nontraditional journalism practitioners in a variety of journalism areas, including ethics and accuracy.  Poynter, a school dedicated to serving journalism in the interest of democracy, aspires through this project to influence -- for the good of a democratic society -- the news values that are emerging among those who are contributing news and information to this rapidly changing media landscape.

this article talks about how journalism is becoming more and more about digital journalism, they want to engage the reader by using multimedia and get them to read more articles.

"OK, Glass, it's time to change journalism. That will be the collective mindset of students taking "Glass Journalism," a new course slated for the fall semester at the University of Southern California, where students will be tasked with thinking up new ways for journalists to tell stories using augmented reality and Google Glass."

"Pushing to the future of journalism - A project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard"