Question: When was the peak of applications to journalism school?
About the article "Watergate scandal", section "Role of the media".

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The US journalism schools are also pressured to adapt to the changing landscape.
At the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, part of Arizona State University, a course on "The Business of Journalism" was retitled "The Business and Future of Journalism" Introductory level courses at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University include "Multimedia Storytelling" and "Introduction to 21st-Century Media."
As print journalism wanes, journalism schools are focusing on the internet as a distribution medium, and are recalibrating courses to hone skills needed for jobs in the 21st century.
Schools now include classes on computer programming as well as entrepreneurship.
Rich Beckman, a professor at the University of Miami, said "There were deans all over the country saying, 'We're never going to teach computer programming in J-school.'
Well, now they are."
Centers for teaching new media innovation are being created at Columbia University and the City University of New York.
Although newspapers are struggling, and journalism jobs being eliminated, applications at the nation's journalism schools are increasing.
The Columbia Journalism School reports a 44% jump from 2008, and the Annenberg School for Communication reports a 20% increase.
Other schools report similar increases. 
The School of Journalism was created by Dr. Perley Isaac Reed.
Dr. Reed arrived at West Virginia University in 1920 and was assigned to teach English and Journalism courses at the College of the Arts and Sciences.
Soon, Reed made it his personal mission to expand the courseload, which also included journalism history, editing, advertisement writing and trade and industrial journalism, in just a few years.
To gain further momentum, Reed used his involvement in the West Virginia State Newspaper Council to improve the press and its profitability.
Using their political power they applied pressure and in the year 1927, Journalism became a department and later became a school in 1939.
The school did not have a building to call its home until 1953 when Martin Hall was given to the Journalism school.
Prior to that, it had occupied only several rooms nearby in Woodburn Hall. 
The College of Journalism and Communications is a college of the University of Florida.
It comprises four departments: Department of Journalism (journalism) Department of Telecommunications (telecommunication) Department of Advertising (advertising) Department of Public Relations (public relations) The college traces its origins to 1925, when the Department of Journalism was formed in Language Hall (now Anderson Hall).
Orland K.
"O.K."
Armstrong was the first head of the department.
The first three journalism degrees were awarded in 1928.
The department moved into Buckman Hall, a renovated dormitory, in 1937.
[http://www.jou.ufl.edu/about/history.asp]Rae O. Weimer, former managing editor at the New York City daily newspaper "PM", began teaching in the Department of Journalism in 1949.
In 1950, the journalism program was accredited, although it still had only "one classroom, no equipment and only two teachers."
In late 1953, broadcasting was transferred to journalism and the department became a school, the School of Journalism and Communications.
In the 1960s, the School of Journalism and Communications became the fastest-growing journalism program in the United States and the fastest-growing unit at UF.
The growth was directly related to its national prominence as the college began dominating the annual Hearst Foundation's national collegiate writing competition.
In 1967, the school became a full-fledged college.
Weimer was named the first dean.
Weimer has been referred to as the "founding father" of journalism at UF; the current journalism building, Weimer Hall, is named for him.
The centerpiece of the journalism programs at UF is WUFT, which consists of both a WUFT (TV) Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television and WUFT-FM NPR public radio station.
The commercial broadcasting radio station, WRUF AM850, is also one of the oldest stations in the state. 
Fromson joined USC’s journalism faculty in 1982 and soon founded and directed theCenter for International Journalism.
The program recruited and trained more than 100 journalists specializing in reporting on Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American nations.
He was Director of USC's School of Journalism in the USC Annenberg School for Communication for five years from 1994-99 when he stepped down to work on a memoir about the Cold War. 
The mascot of Peak to Peak Charter School is a Puma.