For keeping the Communication and Journalism department autonomous, I think compromising journalism department and business department will be the best idea.
Today, the Journalism is no longer what you thought of Journalism. Due to digital age and emergence of Internet Journalism has changed its shape adapting new models. For example, blogs created citizen journalism, which anybody can be journalists. Small news institutions are created by former journalists who got fired due to lay off.
Thus, journalism today is not what we used to know of Journalism. Today if everybody can be journalists, how can journalism student can be distinctive from others? The key point is acquiring business and entrepreneur skills.
You know how there are so many small news organizations are popping up? And these organizations are now getting attention as a one ways of saving journalism in the future. More than 100 of small news organization are created in past year, and they are increasing its value. They are concentrated n community so supported by strong support from community. The staff are former skilled journalists, so the contents are rich, and they have strong investigative journalism skill. These small new organization are successful not only the investigative skills, but they also have to have entrepreneur skill.
SU journalism department are moved into business, they will be able to learn how to manage company and initiate it. In this way, we will have more journalism student who will be success in the future of Journalism.
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