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Journalism Education in Europe and North America. Romy Frohlich and Christina Holtz-Bacha, eds. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2003. 349 pp. $32.50 pbk.
Mass Communication Education. Michael D. Murray and Roy L. Moore, eds. Ames, IA: Iowa State Press, 2003. 445 pp. $59.99 pbk.
These books provide a comprehensive examination and analysis of selected aspects of journalism education in Europe, Canada, and the United States, and would be important additions to institutional libraries and collections.
Frohlich and Holtz-Bacha's book is a series of descriptive essays about journalism education and training systems in the United States, Canada, and several European countries. Frohlich is a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, and Holtz-Bacha is a professor of communications at the University of Mainz in Germany. Both have extensive teaching experience and have studied in the United States.
The essays are in four categories based on what the authors say is the dominant system of journalistic training in each country. One group includes countries where journalism education occurs primarily at the university level (Finland, Spain, United States, and Canada). Another consists of countries where training occurs primarily in special journalism training programs outside universities (Italy, the Netherlands, and Denmark). A third group includes countries whose systems include both universities and independent journalism schools (France, Portugal, and Germany). The fourth consists of countries where training occurs primarily in the workplace (Great Britain and Austria).