Um, no. Next question. The very idea of journalism schools is that the most important aspect of journalism is journalism specific knowledge. Knowing how to wri

Um, no. Next question. The very idea of journalism schools is that the most important aspect of journalism is journalism specific knowledge. Knowing how to write in just the right way. Knowing how to keep your word count down. Knowing how to write on a schedule. Knowing how to mold the material into a familiar shape. But most of that is bullshit. It produces a grey ooze of pablum, and it reinforces the conceit that journalists are more knowledgeable than they truly are and, more importantly, that by following the "news" we can become educated in the important topics relevant to our time. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is that most of the time it takes someone who is truly an expert (or at least a very enthusiastic amateur) in a given field to be able to understand it at a holistic level and to be able to educate the public about it. The most important factor is knowledge, not style. Typically the skills necessary to pass on that knowledge to the public are comparatively easier to pick up than the expertise itself, and not requiring of a degree in journalism. If you look at the vast bulk of material that comes out of j-school graduates you notice the same things. Bland, boring copy designed to spoon feed the tiniest amount of new knowledge, often poorly understood by the writer themselves, to the public. This I would not count as a great service to humanity. Edit: the crisis with j-school educated journalists today is not that journalists are insufficiently tech savvy, it's a mistake to think that way. The issue is that journalists are becoming disintermediated. That's what the internet does, and what it will continue to do. At the end of the day journalists are middle men. Back in the early 20th century we needed an army of middle men to collate news from around the world and format it correctly and in the appropriate terms so that it could fit and be understandable in the medium of printed newspapers. Today none of that is necessary because now transmission and storage of data is nearly trivial. We don't need an army of formatters, we need a much smaller force of knowledgeable experts who are good at communicating. We don't need folks rewriting the same story for hundreds of news outlets and ending up with a hundred different largely similar versions.