• Journalism schools in Chile

Chilean universities with journalism impart the profession as a full 5 years degree. With a grade of "bachelor in social communications" and professional title of Journalist, currently exist more than 30 journalism schools in the country. The national system have an accrediting council that independently certifies the universities as a whole and each of the careers. Nevertheless, only a few are accredited.

The top schoolin the country are the Faculty of Communications of thePontifical Catholic University of Chile, accredited by US's ACEJMC, and the Institute of Communication and Image of theUniversity of Chile, accredited by the National Accrediting Council (CNA). Outside Santiago, the top school is the School of Journalism of thePontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, also accredited by the CNA.

• Debate about the role of journalism schools

One of the most cited critiques of a journalism school wasMichael Lewis's article inThe New Republic(1993), "J-school ate my brain",[43]which was strongly criticized byUniversity of MarylandCollege of Journalism deanReese CleghorninAmerican Journalism Review.[44]Discussion of the issues raised by Lewis was evident a decade later in theChronicle of Higher Educationcolloquy on journalism education,[45]Columbia Journalism Review's "Searching for the perfect j-school",[46]and "The j-school debate" in the Christian Science Monitor.[47]Alternative approaches to journalism education were suggested in Jack Shafer'sSlatearticle "Can J-school be saved? Professional advice for Columbia University".[48]An article inThe Australiandiscusses "What makes a good school of journalism".[49]

On the internet, a range ofweblogshave been set up by journalism students to chronicle or to criticize their journalism colleges. Examples are:"jschoolyear","jschool05","the pod" blogspot,"jschool" blog, australia. An example of a weblog criticising university journalism education in Australia is "What's wrong with the school".[50]One journalism school in the UK, at the University of Westminster,[51]has established a clearing house where all students are expected to contribute to the development and content of their own education and training using blogs.

Various commentaries on journalism education are related to criticisms of contemporarynews mediastandards and values. One example is a paper by Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism .[52]A controversial paper to Australia's peak newspaper industry bodyPANPA(Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association) by ProfessorJohn Henningham("Journalism sold short in media courses") blamed industry lack of interest and university cost-cutting for falling standards in journalism education.[53]In Canada, Mark Anderson of theOttawa Citizenhas argued the case for teachingbusiness journalismin college rather than on the job.[54]Canadian journalism professor Rick MacLean has rejected criticism by Robert Fulford ("Just what is the point of j-school") that the best potential journalists will find their way into the media, while many existing j-school students show no interest in news or the media. MacLean argues that education in journalism helps empower members of the public to understand how media work.[55]