The Reform Of Journalism Education In Colleges And Universities Under Media Convergence

Rapid advances in Internet and multimedia technologies have become a kind huge impact which develops richness, extensive, high timeliness, interactivity, compatibility and other aspects of information. In the new media age, the form of disseminating information is changed and media convergence emerged. Then with the progress of mobile Internet technology, satellite technology and digital technology, the degree of media convergence continues to deepen and develop.Changes in the media environment, lead both development opportunities and new challenges to our journalism education:traditional journalism education has been unable to cultivate students who meet the requirements brought by media environment changes.what kind of news professionals will be really needed by employer in internet era? and how the journalism education adapt to social development? News personnel’s professional knowledge and skills must be redefined. In conclusion, A ’pluralistic and confluent reforms" of journalism education is essentialNowadays, the journalism educators from different colleges and universities around the world continue to create and practice new educational methods in order to training the media talent to adapt to current media environment.In this paper, the authors will try her best to collect specialty cases of journalism education all over the world, which can help the readers broaden their horizons and get a better understanding of Journalism Education in various countries of the world. In addition, this paper also will give a comprehensive comparison and analysis the education ideas and methods of countries or regions whose journalism develop more rapidly. Finally, through the latest case chosen by the author, the paper illustrate the educational philosophy and idea depends on media convergence, the interdisciplinary research, the fusion of journalism theory and practice and the international merging of journalism education.I hope that through this article, the educators can gain experience how to cultivate students qualified for the merging media.