Is J-School Dead?

NPR‘s media correspondent David Folkenflik reports on this morning’s “Morning Edition” about college students aspiring to be journalists.  The question he addresses in the 5 minute 8 second segment: What’s the point of Journalism School, anyway?

“I would be a journalism student if it had any future” one USC student says.  “Information will basically be free… As much as I would like to pursue my love and all of that, I like food, too. I don’t know. I just don’t want to sacrifice at all.”

But another counters, “I don’t believe it when people say journalism is dead.”

An excerpt:

But the question lingers. At USC, undergraduate tuition alone reaches $40,000, and, when taken with fees, books, room, board and other charges, a year’s cost can exceed $55,000. These days journalism schools around the country are often challenged to justify a mission that trains students at such a high cost for a collapsing industry that doesn’t even require a degree.

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