Nominations Invited for 2008 Best Journalism School Honors



With the journalism landscape rapidly evolving and online news outlets proliferating, are university journalism programs keeping apace

That is the question BestJournalismSchools.com is putting to members of America's working news media, as well as bloggers, communications executives and educators. The site will announce results of its research later this year.

Nominations for the 2008 Best Journal School rankings are now open and every accredited undergraduate and graduate program will be considered. To recommend journalism programs that best meets today's new journalism realities, journalists and other communications professional should email their selections to professor @ bestjournalismschools.com.

Organizers of the BestJournalismSchools.com rankings ask that emailed nominations include the name and affiliation of the individual making the recommendations, as well as any professional experience that will help the judges value the nomination.

"This will not be based upon a popular voted, rather it will be a subjective/objective ranking that draws upon the opinions of knowledgeable professionals and incorporates objective statistics about the schools," according to BestJournalismSchools.com.

A couple of well-regarded studies, conducted in 1996 and 1998 respectively, found many of the same journalism programs sharing top honors, including: Northwestern University, University of Missouri at Columbia, and University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

Other previously high-ranked schools include Syracuse University, Ohio University and University of California - Berkeley.

"It been nearly a decade since a credible review has been undertaken looking at leading journalism programs ," a spokesman for the project said. "An awful lot has changed in the news business over the past decade."

The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2008.





Nominations Invited for 2008 Best Journalism School Honors