How else will journalism schools change in order to train these new journalists?

There have long been debates about the purpose and role of journalism school; in the early twentieth century Columbia University actually originally turned down Joseph Pulitzer's original bequest to establish a school in journalism there because the profession was considered "unsuitable" for a Columbia graduate. And despite the fact that journalism professionals are more educated than they have ever been, controversy about journalism schools remains. Are they doing a good job training students given all the changes to the industry in the past few decades? What is the right balance between teaching skills, teaching abstract concepts, and providing students with grounding in the liberal arts and humanities? How can schools possibility keep up with all the new technologies that are increasingly being used by newsrooms?

Despite all the debate there seems to be a growing consensus that journalism schools need to do a better job teaching their students quantitative (numerical) reporting skills, in part due to the explosion of digital data that defines the contemporary information landscape, in part because the skills required to adequately report the news are increasingly quantitative in nature. There is also a consensus that students are going to increasingly have to think visually, even if they plan on primarily being writers or working in audio journalism. This increasingly requires thinking about journalism education in terms of how it relates to other social sciences, to information visualization and design, and to the larger discipline known as "data journalism."