Print Journalism
The 1912-13 catalog lists five courses in journalism: News gathering and News writing; Newspaper Editing and Organization; Newspaper Policy, Ethics, Editorial Writing; Journalism for Teachers; and Journalism Laboratory (work on the Oregon Emerald). By 1917, courses had been added in typography, printing, illustration, advertising, cost accounting, and estimating printing jobs.
Those were the days when the study of journalism was bound closely to the techniques of publishing. Early courses included hands-on work in printing and typesetting as well as the standard fare in news writing and editing. |
The location of the University Printing Department in the same building allowed journalism students to experience, firsthand, the intricacies of typesetting and printing, and served as a laboratory for them. In fact, each year a book was printed by the advanced class in typography. In the Journalism Laboratory course, students earned one credit for work on the Oregon Emerald complete with type selection, setting, and printing.
In those early days, professors such as Colin Dyment (who came to Oregon to work with Eric Allen as one of the first teachers in the new school) stressed real-world experience heavily. Dyment was responsible, along with Dean Allen, for a pioneering experiment in practical journalism in which a group of 100 students actually published the Eugene Guard (now The Register Guard) for an entire week. In later years, it became a regular assignment for classes to get out issues of Oregon papers, including several weeklies, without any supervision at all. Continue with print journalism Part 2 |