Summer is over and that means another wave of fresh-faced students head to university halls on journalism courses in the hope of someday working in the news industry.

It's a responsibility that weighs on many journalism lecturers and professors, according to Karen Fowler-Watt, the new head of journalism at City University, London.

"What sort of journalism do we need to teach?" she asks on the Journalism.co.uk podcast, after publishing her book Challenges and New Directions in Journalism Education. Here, she and her academic peers explore the thinking behind their curriculum design choices and what her journalism students think about them.

"It’s about showing students how messy, difficult, challenging and unfinished journalism is," says explains.

Many students already feel diversity and inclusion as a burgeoning need. Many lamented how hard it is to enter the profession without parental privileges and the financial burden of work experience. This has a limiting effect on who can afford to enter........

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