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The best undergraduate journalism schools

Per this website:

"What to look for: Do the professors have professional journalism experience? Can students take classes in photojournalism, TV, audio and online media as well as reporting and writing? What opportunities do students have to practice their skills? Does the school operate a TV studio? Is there a daily student newspaper?

Ball State University
Programs in journalism graphics, magazine, news-editorial, photojournalism.

Indiana University - Bloomington
One journalism program, with advanced courses in newspaper, magazine, broadcast news, photojournalism, editing, and news analysis and opinion writing.

University of Florida
Programs in reporting, editing, magazine, online, photojournalism, broadcast news.

University of Maryland
Programs in broadcast, online, and print journalism.

University of Missouri
Programs in convergence journalism, magazine, newspaper, photojournalism, radio-television.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Programs in electronic communication, news-editorial, journalism, visual communication."

Personally I'm biased. I think the University of Missouri in Columbia is the best journalism school, but my cousin Anne went to J-school there.

Political News

In this glorious election season, we are hounded daily by political "ticker" blogs and so forth. But does anyone ever take time to read them? I noticed Slate has a great section on politics and I just wanted to share the link.

I found the Obamaisms very funny!

I read a few short snippets and I think the articles are very well written and interesting.

The Good Fight?

It seems the days of Walter Kronkite-like journalism are over. Never in history has journalism been under so much scrutiny due to lack of morals and ethics. Remember how Woodward and Bernstein gave so much of themselves to uncover Watergate? Now, compare Woodward and Bernstein with today's morally lacking "journalists" like Jayson Blair, who we remember plagiarized his way to career suicide.

Are the days of moral journalism over? I think it would be a shame if we couldn't trust what we read in the news anymore. I love to read the news, I think it is a basic American right to be able to trust what we read in the news. I can only hope that I stay optimistic in the years and decades to come....