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UT-Austin's J-School is mulling over a proposal to drop the undergraduate photojournalism program in order to expand a graduate program. They argue that the profession now demands journos have experience working with video and other formats in additon to tradtional still photography. This writer, who teaches in the department, suggests that teaching photojournalism to undergrads was a little unnecessary all along. The basic skills should be learned in the field, he says.
An expansive photojournalism program is pretty attractive to me, since I love photography, but I'm interested in producing a variety of different media.