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Dianne Lynch

What We're Learning About What Journalism Students Don't Know....

It seemed reasonable, as we first started talking about the innovation incubator project 15 months ago, to expect that journalism students would be more technologically adept and experienced than we were. After all, we are a bunch of college administrators, women who (for the most part) have spent our careers in legacy newsrooms and scholarly environments. We figured that students who grew up with the Internet -- or, more accurately for this cohort, grew into adulthood with the Internet -- would come to the task of creating new approaches to community news not only with great ideas but with the...

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Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

Hiroko Tabuchi
Journalism, Technology Starting to Add Up

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