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Redirecting education: Considering theory and changes in contemporary journalism

Developments in a changing social and professional economical environment, media‐technological advancements and declining prestige in the eyes of the public are cause of concern and unrest within journalism. The classic or ‘high modernistic’ view on journalism as being ‘objective, free and fair’ is waning. In most Western democracies the fields of journalism studies, research and theory are gaining prominence on the scholarly agenda. Such developments both call for and inspire new approaches towards educating media professionals. This article addresses various considerations of journalism education in terms of theory: focusing on an integrated perspective of theoretical foundations for journalism and journalism education, and changes: dealing with the ways in which the journalism education and training profession can reinvent itself according the foremost and fundamental challenges to the professional model of journalism: the ‘postmodern’ multicultural society and the convergence of media formats (multimedia journalism), genres (infotainment) and industries.