4 Minute Roundup: NYU's Jay Rosen on Rethinking J-Schools

\n\n4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.\n\nIn this week's 4MR podcast I do another special report for our \"Beyond J-School\" series, this time an in-depth discussion with NYU's Jay Rosen, who has been taking a new approach to journalism education. Rosen told me more about his Studio20 program, using an arts metaphor, and its work in helping to launch the new hyper-local site for the East Village in conjunction with the New York Times.\n\nCheck it out:\n\n\n\n

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\n\n>>> \"Subscribe to 4MR\":http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/audio_podcast.xml <<<\n\n>>> \"Subscribe to 4MR via iTunes\":itpc://www.pbs.org/mediashift/audio_podcast.xml <<<\n\nListen to my entire interview with Jay Rosen, touching on student expectations, and the mistake of news organizations in not using J-schools as R&D labs in the past:\n\n\n\n

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\n\nBackground music is \"What the World Needs\" by the \"The Ukelele Hipster Kings\":http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1930 via PodSafe Music Network. \n\nHere are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:\n\n\"Special Series - Beyond J-School\":http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/08/special-series-beyond-j-school243.html at MediaShift\n\n\"Studio20 on Tumblr\":http://studio20nyu.tumblr.com/\n\n\"The New York Times' Latest Hyperlocal Site Will Launch On Sept. 13\":http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new-york-times-latest-hyperlocal-site-will-launch-on-sept-13-2010-9 at the Business Insider\n\n\"Times Comes to Town, Sweating in Its Gown\":http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2010/07/225258/times-comes-town-sweating-its-gown?page=1 at Capital New York\n\n\"The Local - East Village\":http://journalism.nyu.edu/lev/\n\n\"The New York Times, NYU's Carter Journalism Institute to Launch News Site to Cover East Village\":http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2010/09/07/the-new-york-times-nyus-carter-journalism-institute-to-launch-news-site-to-cover-east-villagesept-13.html at NYU\n\n\"After helping ruin the East Village, NYU turns its attention to covering it\":http://evgrieve.com/2010/02/after-helping-ruin-east-village-nyu.html at EV Grieve\n\nAlso, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about the new Ping social network:\n\n\n\n\nMark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and \"Idea Lab\":http://www.pbs.org/idealab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the \"Online Publishers Association\":http://www.online-publishers.org. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter \"@mediatwit\":http://www.twitter.com/mediatwit.\n\n

\n\n4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.