What To Do When a Student Journalist Isn’t Ready to Produce for the Public? Ask Lots of Them To

By: Adam Ragusea | Nieman Lab

Students can no more be expected to produce publishable journalism by themselves than caterpillars can be expected to fly. This fact should be a consolation to journalism educators such as myself — were it not true, we’d be out of the cocoon business.

But a growing number of new or revamped journalism programs at colleges and universities are built around the notion that students will create work for professional news organizations.