Comments on: Hey media startups: J school students need your help (and you need theirs) http://abrahamhyatt.com/2009/10/hey-media-startups-j-school-students-need-your-help-and-you-need-theirs/ Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: RobertWagner http://abrahamhyatt.com/2009/10/hey-media-startups-j-school-students-need-your-help-and-you-need-theirs/comment-page-1/#comment-4713 RobertWagner Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:51 +0000 http://abrahamhyatt.com/?p=820#comment-4713 <em>"Of course, there were also a few tedious veterans yabbering about “change.” I get cynical and bored with people who wave the word “digital” around like it’s some kind of healing wand without ever examining what has actually changed in our industry."</em> That was the best thing I've read in a month. Really. Thank you. “Of course, there were also a few tedious veterans yabbering about “change.” I get cynical and bored with people who wave the word “digital” around like it’s some kind of healing wand without ever examining what has actually changed in our industry.”

That was the best thing I’ve read in a month. Really. Thank you.

]]> By: Michael http://abrahamhyatt.com/2009/10/hey-media-startups-j-school-students-need-your-help-and-you-need-theirs/comment-page-1/#comment-4673 Michael Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:58:45 +0000 http://abrahamhyatt.com/?p=820#comment-4673 I say the following as someone who's still happily paying off debt from a j-school degree he enjoyed and benefited from. So: grain of salt. The apparent failure of the j-school industry to pivot into entrepreneurial education (despite the best efforts of a <a href="http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime.aspx?id=59579" rel="nofollow">few</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu" rel="nofollow">professors</a> at most schools, I assume) convinces me that, despite my annoyance in the past, US News was right not to include a ranking for journalism schools. Generally speaking, they're right that j-schools aren't really professional schools; they're finishing schools, an optional luxury controlled by an out-of-touch elite. Not that law, business, and medical schools aren't fucked up in their own special, respective ways. I say the following as someone who’s still happily paying off debt from a j-school degree he enjoyed and benefited from. So: grain of salt.

The apparent failure of the j-school industry to pivot into entrepreneurial education (despite the best efforts of a few professors at most schools, I assume) convinces me that, despite my annoyance in the past, US News was right not to include a ranking for journalism schools. Generally speaking, they’re right that j-schools aren’t really professional schools; they’re finishing schools, an optional luxury controlled by an out-of-touch elite.

Not that law, business, and medical schools aren’t fucked up in their own special, respective ways.

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