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Obstacles and Opportunities for Preparing Competent Journalists at Universities in Bangladesh

Obstacles and Opportunities for Preparing Competent Journalists at Universities in Bangladesh This paper reports on a survey of the resources and capabilities, including infrastructure and logistics in 14 university-level Bangladeshi journalism institutions. Progress of the university journalism programmes is hampered by poorly resourced convergent news laboratory, shortage of research and teaching staff with professional media experience. It posits that university journalism programmes in Bangladesh, regardless of their ideological inclinations, should revamp their curriculum to emphasize on practical courses so as to keep pace with changing technologies in the newsroom. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Media Educator SAGE

Obstacles and Opportunities for Preparing Competent Journalists at Universities in Bangladesh

Asia Pacific Media Educator , Volume 26 (1): 18 – Jun 1, 2016

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2016 University of Wollongong
ISSN
1326-365X
eISSN
2321-5410
DOI
10.1177/1326365X16640989
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Abstract

This paper reports on a survey of the resources and capabilities, including infrastructure and logistics in 14 university-level Bangladeshi journalism institutions. Progress of the university journalism programmes is hampered by poorly resourced convergent news laboratory, shortage of research and teaching staff with professional media experience. It posits that university journalism programmes in Bangladesh, regardless of their ideological inclinations, should revamp their curriculum to emphasize on practical courses so as to keep pace with changing technologies in the newsroom.

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Asia Pacific Media EducatorSAGE

Published: Jun 1, 2016

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