ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the history of journalism education and looks at its key texts. A key element of journalism education is that it is seen as laying the foundations for the skills, attitudes, and knowledge of future journalists. Academic literature on journalism education amply demonstrates the efforts of uniting theory and practice. The shift to journalism education being mostly provided in university or college courses made it easier for researchers to establish a profile of journalism students, to interrogate their motivations for studying journalism, their role perceptions of journalism, and their expectations of future work. Journalism education in the affected countries has to address the changing employment situation and determine which courses would be most useful for the future of their students. The major objective Joseph Pulitzer hoped for when urging Columbia University in New York to open a school of journalism, was to give reporters an education.
