Published: November 21, 1996
Last Updated: August 19, 1999
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All around the country, journalism schools are gearing up to train the digital press corps. Here's a sample of who's doing what. (ASNE does not guarantee that all of these links are still active.)

• Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond is working with the Associated Press to design and build a training facility called the 21st Century newsroom. Call Dean Joyce Dodd, 804/828-2660.
• Journalism educators at the University of Missouri in Columbia just moved into a new building equipped with multimedia capabilities. Administrators want to position themselves as "the multimedia school." Call William "Bill" Kuykendall, a professor of photojournalism, at 573/882-4882. Educators are proud that one of their students was recently hired by Microsoft News.
• The Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada in Reno is sponsoring research by faculty to determine how visitors move through a Web site. Results are expected to help develop more effective page design techniques. Call Dean Jimmy Gentry at 702/784-6536 or e-mail jgentry@unr.edu.
• Indiana University received a $1.5 million grant in 1995 from the Knight Foundation, which it is using to develop the "curriculum of the future." For more information, call Dean Trevor Brown at 317/274-277 or e-mail brownt@journalism.indiana.edu. For more on the proposed new bachelor's degree program in new media, call Assistant Dean James Brown at 317/274-2773 or e-mail jbrown@gutenberg.iupui.edu.
• California State University-Fullerton is teaching students to build Web pages and do Internet searches. Call Paul Lester, professor of visual communications, 714/773-3517.
• The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University has recently created its own Center for New Media. Call Professor John Pavlik, 212/854-3411.
• Syracuse University recently unveiled a revamped curriculum for its S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Call Anthony Golden, chairman of the Multimedia Task Force, at 315/443-3367.
• Students working at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., have published an electronic magazine featuring stories about prominent local personalities, including President Roosevelt. The magazine includes an audio component. The Web address is: http://www.academic.marist.edu/ssp/mainmenu.htm.
• A syllabus of "Journalism on the Web," the experimental offering of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in Athens, Ohio, may be seen by setting your Web browser to: http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/faculty/stewartr/jour492.