Note that I dif­fer­en­ti­ate between the print news­pa­per and jour­nal­ism. Journalism is a prac­tice; news­pa­pers are a deliv­ery mechanism.

Colleges ought to be focus­ing on teach­ing jour­nal­ism and doing so in an appro­pri­ate man­ner which will best pre­pare stu­dents for life in the post-university “real world”. Teaching stu­dents how to pro­duce a print news­pa­per is teach­ing them to be obso­lete. Students should be learn­ing elec­tronic dis­tri­b­u­tion through mod­ern con­tent man­age­ment systems.