Proper scale control, synchronous development of news dissemination, and high degree of internationalization with teachers relying on senior talents in the industry. The present situation and characteristics of journalism and communication education in the United States are that the teaching materials are not fixed, the library is rich in materials, general education is emphasized, intensive lectures and more practice are carried out, and five activities are carried out by teachers and students. The enlightenment of American journalism and communication education is various, which is as follows: first, we should control the enrollment scale moderately; Second, set up courses scientifically and reasonably; Third, National Taiwan University should be equipped with teachers, and more senior people with rich experience and high theoretical attainments should be hired from the industry to teach in the school. Fourth, we should pay attention to teaching interaction; Fifth, we must insist on intensive reading and practice more.

Keywords United States; News communication education; Teaching interaction; Detailed description of multi-weft:

Journalism and communication education in the United States began at the beginning of last century and is one of the earliest countries in the world. For more than a hundred years, its development has been healthy and orderly on the whole, and it still occupies the leading position in the world. China's journalism and communication education started late, and it has gone through a bumpy and even retrogressive road for more than half a century. In the past twenty or thirty years, it has developed rapidly. In order to learn from the successful experience of running schools in the west and further improve and promote the healthy, orderly and scientific development of journalism and communication education in China, the author and his party went to the United States from the end of June to the beginning of July 2007 to inspect journalism and communication education in nearly 20 universities, including Columbia University, University of South Florida and Pant College.

First, the current situation of American journalism education

On June 30th, Beijing time, we flew to new york and visited the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University the next morning. The school, formerly known as Columbia University School of Journalism, was donated by the famous American journalist Pulitzer, 19 12. Originally, high school graduates (five years' schooling) and college students (one year's schooling) were enrolled, and they obtained a bachelor's degree in literature after graduation. Later, because many American universities set up journalism and communication majors one after another, the reputation of the college rose, so both subjective and objective need to improve the quality of running schools. Starting from 1935, the college was changed into a graduate school with a one-year academic system. The enrollment target is undergraduate graduates, and 30 to 40 students are recruited from all over the world every year.

The main courses offered by the college are: advanced reporting and writing, radio reporting and writing, news editing, news law and society, personal style or professional genre, American society, international communication, media management, photography and layout design, contemporary media and politics, etc. About half of the college's full-time teachers are visiting teachers from newspapers, radio stations, TV stations and advertising companies. The bimonthly columbia journalism review and the quarterly Public Opinion published by the Institute are influential in academia and industry, and the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, which enjoys a high reputation in the international news and communication field, is also selected by the Institute. When we visited the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University, it coincided with the school holiday, but in many classrooms, offices and studios of the school's teaching building, many teachers and students were still seriously carrying out various teaching practice activities. We took a group photo in the awarding hall of Pulitzer Prize for Journalism with reverence.