| Summary: | The article focuses on the use of computer technology in journalism education. To compete successfully in a tight job market, journalism majors need to be trained in electronic editing now even more than they need to learn the traditional copy editing skills with ebony pencils, shears and paste. Any computer has the capabilities of being a word processor, and any journalism program at a university which offers computer science has access to computers with text formatters. Most computer science programs use video display terminals with a separate single printer because they are less expensive than teletypewriter terminals. While using a general-purpose computer for typing and editing stories is not as easy as using a machine especially designed for word processing, it has been found that there are some advantages of these systems for reporting and editing classes.
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