- [Announcer] We interrupt this program
for a special news bulletin.
(exciting music)
- [Narrator] The outpouring
of America industrial giant.
- Academic programs are
not all bricks and mortar
and they're not all technology
but certainly because of
what's happening in the media,
we need the right technology
and the right facility
to make sure that our students
are prepared for the future of media
both in journalism and
strategic communication
and that future will
be on the second floor
of the Moudy building.
It will be about 2800 square feet
and it will bring together
all of the forms of media
that we know about now
and probably will be with us
for the foreseeable future.
That is traditional text, photography,
video, graphics, some
other forms of multimedia.
You need the technology to
be able to train students
and you need the place
to bring it all together
hence convergence.
It all is going to happen in one place.
- No longer can you have a
young journalist who says
I'm a great writer and that's it.
Now, that great writer
also needs web savvy,
needs ability to be able to shoot video,
needs to be a photographer also.
The journalism graduate
who you would consider
really well qualified in 2000
would be considered hopelessly
out of date in 2009.
So the Convergence Lab is a technique
to implement a mindset.
- If I were running my
dream newsroom today,
I would want the best photographer,
the best videographer and the best writer
but I'd want them all in one
and I mean, that's what everybody wants
because I would want that person to go out
and look at an event and
choose the best medium
to tell that story in
because the reality is that
the web is platform agnostic.
You're not bound to any
one medium on the internet.
- [John] TCU should be justifiably proud
that it's going to be in the first wave
of what is a major shift in education
in journalism and strategic communication.
