TV Tropes. WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here. You Don't Say. 10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media. Vadim Lavrusik is a new media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at lavrusik.com. With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook or Twitter, which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way. BeatBlogging.Org - pushing the practice of beat reporting.