Borderzine Director Zita Arocha and Knight Eric Newton, senior adviser to the President at the Knight Foundation, at the Knight offices in Miami. (David Smith-Soto/Borderzine.com)

Journalism education reform: How far should it go?

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Editor’s note – Eric Newton, senior adviser to the President at Knight Foundation, gave this speech as the keynote address May 11, 2012 at a national conference of journalism educators, “Journalism Education in the Digital Age,” at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2005, two of America’s largest foundations created the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. This was before Facebook got big. Before Twitter, Instagram, Groupon or Pinterest. Before the iPhone or the iPad.