The Strategic Alliance between Academia and Journalism: an ongoing debate in Labform

Abstract

This article derives from the vivid debate on a blog about journalism education. That discussion has raised several key questions about the ideal path to enter the journalism career, one of the most challenging crafts. Journalism is suffering a sustainability crises, amplified by digital technology, and concurrently the academia's uncertainty. Communication science has been granted academic status for almost four decades now, but journalism, one of its most noble fields, still struggles to find its place.