For the past 100 years the role of a journalist was to find information, shape it into an
accurate news story and transmit it as quickly as possible to a mass audience through mass media.
Nowadays information is no longer scarce, breaking news is no longer the province of professional
journalists, and the influence of mass media is declining meanwhile personalized news gets trendy. Like
many news organizations, journalism education programs are unprepared to respond to such structural
changes in this all-media environment. The present response has been primarily to expand technology
training and reorient media sequence and development tracks. This paper recommends a realignment
of journalism education from an industry-centered model to a community-centered model, in order
to reengage journalism education in a more productive, more vital role in the future of journalism. A
community-centered focus can reconstitute the conceptualization of Journalism Education to match
what is taking place in journalism outside the university.