Village Voice Weighs in on New NYFA Digital Journalism Program!
August 12th, 2008 Posted in PressThe Village Voice, favored publication of many of our film and acting students, honored us recently with a fantastic article about the future of broadcasting, and the role our new Digital Journalism program may play in training the next generation of journalists. Don’t forget to click to read the rest of the article on VillageVoice.com!
Teaching a New Generation of Reporters to Capture Events on Film
First came the bad news. The third day of classes at the New York Film Academy’s new digital-journalism program, launched earlier this month, began with an NBC Nightly News segment about the newspaper business.
The Boston Herald was outsourcing its printing operation. The Chicago Tribune unloading its skyscraper. The Palm Beach Post laying people off. The San Francisco Chronicle bleeding $1 million a week.
The message was clear. Traditional media are in upheaval, and how they will function once the dust settles would have something to do with the roughly 30 students assembled in this windowless room at Broadway and Prince Street.
