Watch two Columbia Journalism School students demonstrate their comprehension of j-school primer The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. & E. B. White, in rap form.
We can only assume this is part of the application process for a job at Ben Smith's "Now With 100% More Reporting!" BuzzFeed. Read More
Rather, it's an "online pricing plan," a "digital subscription plan." "It's not like the Times of London wall," said Sulzberger, noting the porousness and searchability of the new New York Times.
Yet at last night's discussion at the Columbia Journalism School, entitled 'The Future of Media, Publishing and Paid Content', the audience just couldn't shake the Read More
New Yorker editor David Remnick spoke this week at Columbia Journalism School as part of the Delacorte lecture series. On the subject of the magazine's cost, he had this to say:
"There's no doubt to me that the business of practically giving away the magazine to jack up circulation has no future," Remnick said. Read More
Last week, the Columbia Journalism School announced that it had completed the fundraising necessary to start the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Now they just need a director. Columbia has launched a broad search for candidates to head the center, and hopes to have chosen one by July 1st.
"The person may come from Read More
Driving rain couldn't keep about 50 reporters and bloggers away from from Columbia University, where the 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Finalists were announced. Coffee, tea and cookies were served on third floor of the Columbia Journalism School as the winners' names were presented. It was noted that this was the first year online-only reports Read More
Dan Peres stepped to the podium at the Columbia Journalism School on Thursday night and said, “I’ve had a difficult day, but I’m going to do my best to snap out of it."
The Details editor didn't offer too many, well, details, leading some to wonder if perhaps his magazine might be going the way Read More
Sounds scintillating, no?
The graduate school's associate dean for communications sent out the following email today to give both the camera-wary and the hams among the student body a heads Read More
Felix Dennis, the billionaire publisher of Maxim who was the first person to say the word “cunt” on live British television, cut right to the chase last night at the Columbia Journalism School.“Let’s get the murder thing out of the way,” he said in his refined British accent, alluding to his outrageous, and subsequently retracted Read More
We're moments away from the Pulitzer announcements, and we've sent our intern, Matt Townsend, to document the strictly no-frills scene at the Columbia Journalism School. Here's his account:
2:37: I'm at the Joseph Pulitzer World Room. There are two people in the seats so far.
2:47: At the back of the room there's a fold-out table Read More
At the Columbia Journalism School on Wednesday night, David Simon, the former crime reporter and creator of HBO’s massively popular urban drama series The Wire, didn’t waste any time before he started blasting his ex-bosses at The Baltimore Sun, the overall quality of American newspapers and, harshest of all, newsrooms that are more concerned with Read More
After about an hour, there seemed to be no more questions for him, so Newsweek editor Jon Meacham turned to his audience—about 100 graduate students at Columbia journalism school—and said he had a question for them: Did anyone in the room read Newsweek or Time? There was a small, awkward rumbling before finally, a man Read More
The paranoia was arresting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on Friday afternoon, Dec. 1. It wafted out from the Lecture Hall, where about 200 graduate students from a "Critical Issues in Journalism" class faced allegations of cheating on a final essay test. Two girls scrambled to the door when they spotted reporters lingering Read More
First (and now second) reports are filtering in of today's meeting at the Columbia School of Journalism, which was called by University staff because of suspicions that students somehow cheated on an ethics class exam. (The Friday section of the class "Critical Issues in Journalism" was compelled to attend today's 1:45 p.m. meeting, reported yesterday Read More
One of the usual laments about public education in this city is its hidebound bureaucracy, impervious to change and innovation. Layers of administrators and union bosses act as obstacles between the classroom and reform. Or so it seems. An experiment underway on the Lower East Side is demonstrating that the terms "public school" and "innovation" Read More
