Why McNeill has few windows.

When I first came to Simpson, I always wondered why McNeill had so few windows, and why so many journalism classes are in the bottom floor where no windows exist at all. Still, after only a few lessons in my journalism and communication courses, I began to see why. A recent article in Mediangler reitterated my views. Today's journalism students are at risk of jumping off the ledge when they see the prospects of their career. The article I'm addressing chose a sort of apocolyptic list of 10 ways that the media world will continue to change in the future, with most of these reasons no doubt leading to a shudder of fear for today's journalism student. What reason frightened me the most? I would have to say the following statement, reading;

Newspapers will have shorn most of their staff within five years and will be relying on a new breed of writer/audio/video patch-maker to add to their online quilt. There is no point hiring people when you can get it for free.


What does this mean for me? I used to shrug off such predictions saying that today's student just needed to learn to have to be more multi-faceted when entering the career field. But with these so-called (and inevitable) job cuts, is outstanding training enough? What, if any tools can prepare tomorrow's journalist to meet the demands of an occupation that seems to be shutting them out?