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It's not a new debate: Should journalism education focus on technique or technology? In light of the University of Colorado-Boulder, are j-schools erasing the traditional curriculum and going back to the drawing board?
You could sum up the state of journalism education with Charles Dickens' iconic opening paragraph in "A Tale of Two Cities." There is evidence for it being the best of times and the worst, for both hope and despair, and the noisiest commentators are definitely arguing for superlative descriptions. But where is j-school headed and, more importantly, where should it be headed?