Arguments about journalism and education have droned on for years. Whether colleges, schools, and departments should even have mass communication as part of their titles is a relevant topic, given the segmentation of the media market and the specific tailoring of media the individual user. That, too, is an age-old discussion. And even the question of whether drones are useful in journalism programs is debatable. University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Missouri School of Journalism (and perhaps other schools) are offering courses that use drones as newsgathering tools in journalism.A few colleagues are excited about the possibility of using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) in our curriculum. But when I asked a group of students for their advice on drones, they said they did not regard drones as necessary. What they need, they said, is more video, more coding, and a media management course or module. I should point out that many of the students with whom I spoke were not solely journalism majors but were double majoring or minoring in journalism and political science or journalism and a language.Although these students may not know it, their preferences reflect the sort of preparation and attitudinal disposition that Thomas Friedman espoused in his New York Times column on January 29, It's P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as I.Q when he wrote that it will be necessary to develop skills that are complementary technology rather than ones that can be easily replaced by it. It is essential have not only IQ but also PQ (passion quotient) and CQ (curiosity quotient), he wrote. People will need leverage digital tools not just find a job but invent or reinvent one, and not just learn but relearn for a lifetime.As one of the latest newsgathering tools, drones are becoming a topic of conversation. GEN (Global Editors Network) News Summer 2013: Hack the Newsroom! that will take place in Paris from June 19 21 will feature a session on drones. Journalistic Experiments of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Three Case Studies promises look at covering a demonstration from the air, and mapping a conflict or a catastrophe-hit area. Reinventing Storytelling, The Rise of the Data Movement: Visual Storytelling, Design Is How It Works: Agile Systems and Responsive Design, and Will Newsgaming Become Part of the Strategy of Media Groups? are just some of the other interesting topics.Two other gatherings this summer are sure include questions about the components and value of journalism and education in international contexts. Shortly after the GEN News Summit, from June 25 29, the conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research will take place in Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, and from July 3 5, the third World Journalism Education Congress, hosted by the European Journalism Training Association and the Flemish/Dutch Network of Journalism Institutes, will take place in Mechelen, Belgium.I hope report on some of these events in a future Editor's Note.In other news, The State of the News Media 2013: An Annual Report on American by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, points two realities in its first three sentences-one, the power of social media, and two, the shrinkage of jobs in journalism.In 2012, a continued erosion of news reporting resources converged with growing opportunities for those in politics, government agencies, companies and others take their messages directly the public, the report notes.Signs of the shrinking reporting power are documented throughout this year's report. Estimates for newspaper newsroom cutbacks in 2012 put the industry down 30 percent since its peak in 2000 and below 40,0000 full-time professional employees for the first time since 1978.And yet there are occasional anomalies in this mediascape: Warren Buffett, for one, is buying up newspapers and seems confident that there is a future for them, especially for midsized and smaller papers. …