This document summarizes arguments for changing journalism education, proposes a new model, and provides examples of initial experiments. It argues that the current model assumes journalism's role is to produce information for the public rather than facilitate conversations, and trains students for existing industry practices rather than innovation. The proposed model stresses citizenship and public needs over professionalism, multiple journalistic roles like moderating over just reporting, and socializing students to work with communities online and offline. It highlights challenges but concludes this is a critical time for journalism educators to experiment with new conceptions of the field through projects like OurTahoe.org, Nuestro Tahoe, and Reno Noise.

4. Historic Model Newspapers ____________ Radio and TV stations Magazines Web sites Journalism Schools Educators __________ Students

13. Journalism Education News Industry The Networked Public Geographic communities/ Communities of interest Proposed Model News Ecology

18. OurTahoe.org

19. Nuestro Tahoe

20. Reno Noise

21. Albany Today

22. NewsMixer