The Denver Post Gets A Revamp by Federick Cole

The Denver Post will soon be getting a makeover with some help by Frederick Cole, a retired editor who has worked around the nation with many big city newspapers from Chicago to San Francisco.  Cole will help The Denver Post revamp its coverage and look.  With new forms of media happening everyday Cole is going to give Denver Post’s website a makeover to keep them in the lead of new media.

Before Cole became editor of The Chicago Sun, Huston Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, at the age of 16 he worked as a copy boy at his local newspaper company.  Cole never graduated from high school nor did he attend college.  His classroom was the newsroom that formed him to becoming an editor.  Cole was lucky to have such a great oppurunity for his journalism career.  With times changing perspective journalist do not have a chance of a great opportunity like Cole did. 

Future perspective journalists who want to have a career in journalism needs to go to college and work hard to earn a degree.  

Here is a link of the top schools and colleges for journalism. 

For students that do go to college and earn a degree Cole still believes that is still not good enough for graduates to work in the journalism department. “I'm not sure that youngsters take to learning the way we did, and this is showing up in the young men and women who come into the newsroom as beginners. Editors and educators have a common objective: We want to strive for optimum quality in our work.” said Cole.

“The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last fall that undergrad enrollment in journalism and mass communications programs increased 35 percent over the last 10 years.  And enrollment actually went up 0.8 percent from 2007 to 2008, according to the 2008 Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communications Graduates (ASJMCG) by the University of Georgia. (2009 stats are not yet available.)”  Read more.

Cole believes that colleges should make journalism students more rounded on topics, be tough on the students by putting pressure on deadlines. “When they must write fast, they tie up.”   Sure, we expect a lot because we don't label our stories—written by a beginner, intermediate or advanced reporter. Our readers pay for a professionally done product."