I returned from the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication yesterday afternoon and slept for 12 hours last night. It was an exhausting, but interesting and motivating week. Because I’m on the job market, I spent much of my time in interviews and didn’t have as much opportunity to attend panels and presentations as I would like. (Not that I”m complaining– it’s good to be in job interviews!)
From what I did hear, including my conversations with representatives from schools who are hiring assistant professors of journalism, the overarching theme of this year’s conference was that journalism is in major upheaval and journalism educators don’t know exactly what to do about that.
