The Value of a Journalism Education Hasn't Declined, but it Has Changed.

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The Value of a Journalism Education Hasn't Declined, but it Has Changed.

With reporters losing their jobs at every major North American media outlet, and these major cuts hitting a little too close to home as they take their toll on our local dailies, some are questioning the choice to keep studying journalism.

Kelly Toughill, associate professor in the school of Journalism at King’s, thinks otherwise. In an op-ed piece published in The Toronto Star, the former Star journalist writes of the hunger and determination of the latest generation of journalists, and the cutting-edge skillset a forward-thinking educational program offers them.

"Our graduates have hard skills in multimedia journalism that veterans are just now learning," she writes. "Our students have learned to tell stories with words, pictures, sounds, maps and graphs and arrive in newsrooms with at least a basic understanding of the new tools of storytelling: Flash, Soundslides, HTML.

"I am excited for my students... There has never been a more interesting time to join this profession."

For Toughill's Toronto Star piece on the value of a journalism degree, click here.