Abstract
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are transforming the face of modern journalism. The new tools have great potential in facilitating fast, cost-effective and targeted journalism than the traditional media before them. However, this potential cannot be realized fully if the journalists lack the requisite skills to exploit it. Most schools of journalism have recognized the need to equip their graduates with adequate ICT skills and are already offering regular ICT programmes not only at the undergraduate but also at the graduate levels. Further, there are also a number of online courses and on-the-job training models organized by media houses or journalists’ professional associations. In Kenya, however, schools of journalism seemed stuck in time and continued to focus largely on offline journalism. But recently in an attempt to catch-up, these schools have now introduced a number of ICT courses. Using the survey technique this study investigated how effective these ICT courses are. The findings reveal that the courses are not effective.
Highlights
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the catchall idiom employed to explain a wide array of technologies used in varied extents for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing and transmitting information
The World Wide Web (WWW) and social media have taken the center stage in journalism leading to the rise of the new media concepts such as online journalism, citizen journalism, community journalism, participatory journalism, civilian journalism and collaborative journalism [10] asserts that the Web and the Internet are the mostused new resources for finding online information, replacing and supplementing established commercial services
The School of Journalism (SOJ) at the University of Nairobi was established as a UNESCO project in 1968 and remains a top journalism training center in East and Central Africa
Summary
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the catchall idiom employed to explain a wide array of technologies used in varied extents for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing and transmitting information. Millison [5] defines journalism as any non-fiction or documentary narrative that reports or analyzes facts and events firmly rooted in time (either topical or historical) which are selected and arranged by reporters, writers, and editors to tell a story from a particular point of view. He adds that journalism products have traditionally been published in print, presented on film, and broadcast on television and radio.
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