Top Journalism Schools - Page 3

ADREW5449 · 07-25-2006, 02:25 PM

Watch "Tabloid Wars" on Bravo (?) to see what The Post is like from the inside. first episode last night (7-24) check listings...

MayerGirl5 · 07-25-2006, 05:55 PM

thanks. I meant to watch that show, but somewhow I forgot. There was only about 10 minutes left when I realized, so I decided to just wait for the re-run. The Post is not a tabloid, so I don't know why they call it that. Sure, it has Page 6, but basically all of the rest is news.

MayerGirl5 · 07-25-2006, 09:19 PM

Guess what? I'm downloading 'Tabloid Wars' now, so I won't have to wait

LakeWashington · 07-26-2006, 10:27 AM

MayerGirl5, I would say that having a 'conservative political bent' and being from Australia would help. The NY Post and the news corporation in general seems bent on hiring foreign nationals for its American news operations. And by the way, the Post IS A TABLOID, by local definition.

Greybeard · 07-26-2006, 07:23 PM

The term "tabloid" technically refers to the size of a newspaper; the Wall Street Journal has now become a tabloid in that sense. The term has acquired a secondary meaning: a style of journalism that's pretty well exemplified in this country by the New York Post.

MayerGirl5 · 07-26-2006, 07:51 PM

Yes, I know that the Post is tabloid size, it's just that I think the word 'tabloid' has a negative connotion. For instance, I told my friends dad that I wanted to write for the Post someday, and he said 'oh, so you're going to write about celebrities having baby aliens, are you?' I just found his comment slightly annoying.

drj · 08-06-2006, 10:39 AM

this is the first time i've ever seen nebraska included among the top five. anybody in the know about missouri would overwhelmingly refute "a step back" anywhere given the multimillion dollar construction and growth going on there and the huge sums of money being raised. ditto the advances at USC which like columbia is in the other media capital of the world.

nebraska is a very fine second tier program like kansas and oklahoma. almost anybody in the field can find two executives touting one school. better to check consensus data instead.

wcmom · 08-06-2006, 02:23 PM

My son is interested in sports journalism, has been very active on his high school paper, and has even been published in a college textbook. He has been told that it's better to major in something other than journalism for an undergrad degree, and then either minor in journalism or go to grad school... any idea what major would be the best option?

Sam Lee · 08-06-2006, 03:29 PM

At Northwestern, a journalism major often ends up double-majoring because the requirement is only maximum of 12 out of 45 credits (1 credit = 1 course) are from the journalism school. With the remaining 33 credits, you may as well use them to fulfill the requirement of another liberal arts major.

drj · 08-06-2006, 06:43 PM

all accredited programs in journalism require a heavy grounding in the liberal arts. political science or economics are great concentrations for news reporters, for example.

herecomesthesun · 08-10-2006, 11:58 PM

I'm going to Mizzou in three days! All the schools have their pros and cons, but someone said that Mizzou is theory based, and that's really not the case. Mizzou is the only J-School that owns and runs the city's newspaper, and the city's news station. To graduate from the J-School, you have to actively participate in one of them. Its very hands-on.

drj · 08-11-2006, 01:52 AM

bingo! for about fifty years mizzou journalism students have been required to serve as reporters for the columbia missourian, a city daily. if you decide on broadcast you are required to serve as a reporter for komu-tv, the local network affiliate. been there, and done both of them.

my brother liked the place so much that he's still there, as the missourian advertising manager, thirty years later.

congrats sun...you will like the ride ahead.

Pseudonomdeplume · 08-19-2006, 05:46 PM

Is it possible to teach at J-schools (or even colleges with communication studies departments) after graduating with a M.J. or M.A. in journalism?

SSobick · 08-20-2006, 03:46 PM

UF was ranked 6th overall the last time I checked. I think that they should be ranked higher though.

drj · 08-22-2006, 12:13 AM

pseudo,
yes, many teach in j-schools without doctoral degrees--particularly if you have high level experience working in some aspect of the field. some of these faculty actually can get promoted all the way to full professor at certain institutions.