Journo-Morphosis

Despite an explosion of media sites on the World Wide Web, a coherent framework for education and training in web journalism has not emerged in the UK. This has left a lacuna in postgraduate vocational journalism education. Courses in web journalism exist, but on the periphery and chiefly with new media practices grafted on to established forms. In the 'mediamorphic' process, old and new journalism should not only co-exist but also be co-evolving and converging within a complex adaptive system. Both new evidence, drawn from a survey of three major British journalism schools, and the historical development of journalism education and training in the UK indicate a systemic problem in engaging with change.