j-school

The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning dramatic changes for its journalism program, and J-schools across the country are facing a similar dilemma: How to train students to compete in an industry in constant upheaval?

It's no secret that going to journalism school ("J school") just isn't the value proposition it was even a few years ago, especially if you've always dreamed of going into the print end of things. Traditional jobs at newspapers, magazines and TV stations are few and far between. Gigs writing for...

It's a baffling phenomenon: As the job market for journalists has gotten worse and worse, enrollment in journalism schools has gone up and up. How to explain this? As it turns out, there's a fairly simple, if surprising, explanation: As bad as things are in the media industry, j-school grads are,...