Category — J-Schools

[originally posted on Merrill on Multimedia blog]

The Online News Association annual conference is kicking off this weekend in Washington, D.C. and one of the pre-conference workshops was J-Lab’s J-School Entrepreneurship workshop. Listening to the presenters from other journalism schools and organizations started me thinking about our own curricular discussions at Merrill.

We have been working over the last few years to infuse multi-platform and multimedia skills throughout the curriculum and not segregate these skills/mindsets into just the “online” classes. But let’s take a step back: why do we even have “online” classes? [Read more →]