In an article from Wednesday's Financial Post, Eva Salinas writes about the newspaper's digital transformation and how Canadian journalism schools are adapting. According to Salinas, the Internet's growth is a mixed blessing for journalists.

"On one hand, it provides a wider audience and easier access to information...yet forging into the new online world also increases pressure for professionals to be more versatile and resourceful," writes Salinas.

Journalism schools are beginning to adjust, hiring professors with experience in online journalism in order to better prepare students for the evolving newsroom.

"If the medium of a different generation of journalism students was the newspaper or the six o'clock newscast, for this generation it's online," says Mike Gasher, director and associate professor in the department of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal.

Schools are also recognizing the potential of the online generation. According to Joyce Smith, associate professor and director of online curriculum at Ryerson University's School of Journalism, the burgeoning medium will open a slew of opportunities, and jobs, for future journalism graduates.

"What online has done is it's shaken everything else out of complacency," Smith says.

Source: The Financial Post