2008 Poynter Educators Forum

I'm coming to Poynter w/ my colleague, Sue Robinson. I'll leave it to her to discuss our grad program while I cover the undergrad. What's working is that we were a very early entry into launching a curriculum that adapted to the changing media landscape. In fall 2000, we began courses that attempted to be "platform agnostic." The mantra was "we're training people for jobs that may not even exist yet." It was a roll of the dice. We couldn't see what was coming. But we guessed correctly. So we've been teaching audio, video, print and online in converged courses for eight years. For a sense of one of those, check out the site for my magazine classCurb magazine, which puts a print and online magazine out each fall.
That's the good news. I'll get to the bad news in the next thread