ABSTRACT
The conclusion that students in media-related fields need to obtain a liberal as well as a practical education can be traced to the start of academic training in journalism-Robert E. Lee’s abortive plan for college training of journalists following the Civil War. In his attempt to determine the most important liberal subjects, Camp (1888) found that leading journalists of the day recommended that education in journalism should contain not only courses in political science, history, and economics, but also courses in journalism that involved news recognition and analysis as well as news presentation. The six men who were most responsible in establishing the foundation for the field of journalism education-Lee, White, Pulitzer, Eliot, Bleyer, and Williams-all proposed a liberal education for journalists.
