Students Jump Into Breakfast TV

Journalists are encouraged to be courageous individuals, and successful forays beyond an almost mythical zone of comfort during experiential journalism educatiom are seen to extend personal boundaries and mirror the so-called realities of the job. This presentation consider the impacts when, along with its students, a journalism programme is itself also required to challenge long established and arguably comfortable pedagogical and technological boundaries. It looks at the power of open-minded partnership across the industry-university line and celebrates unprecedented levels of industry involvement by students possible during such collaboration.