It's Time to Redefine Journalism Education in Canada

Abstract

This commentary suggests that Canadian journalism schools need to redefine their mission from serving the twin masters of the news industry and the university to serving journalism in all its emerging forms. It suggests that this can be done by more closely adhering to the university's demands of research, teaching, and community service, and more specifically, by adopting a more critical and theoretical research-oriented stance. This approach will not only serve students by making them better-educated journalists, but will serve journalism by giving journalism educators a role to play in its current transformation.