J-school

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J-school is a term used in the media industry, journalism and education circles in the United States to denote a university journalism school or college of journalism. The term (also represented as "jschool" or "j school") appears to have been in use in the U.S.A. since the 1970s, and by the end of the 20th Century had spread to other English-speaking countries, including Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the Indian subcontinent. (Two alternative minor usages of the term jschool are to denote a Japanese school and a junior school.)

On the internet, a range of weblogs using the term j-school/jschool have been set up by journalism students in the U.S.A. to chronicle or, more commonly, to criticize their journalism colleges. (Examples are: [1], [2], [3]). An example of a weblog criticising university journalism education in Australia is [4].

One of the most cited critiques of a j-school was Michael Lewis's article in The New Republic (1993), "J-school ate my brain" ([5]), which earned a strong rebuke from American Journalism Review: [6]. Discussion of the issues raised by Lewis was evident a decade later in the Chronicle of Higher Education colloquy on journalism education, [7], Columbia Journalism Review's "Searching for the perfect j-school", [8], and "The j-school debate" in the Christian Science Monitor, [9]. See also Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

One leading journalism college in Australia has adopted Jschool as its name, as described in the Brisbane Media Map: [10]. See also: [11].

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