Why We Need a Better Conversation About the Future of Journalism Education
Posted: 4/15/2013 | By: Tom Rosenstiel | Poynter
Two New York
writers exchanged misfire recently about journalism education, and
almost all of it was misdirected. Then the conversation they started
died with damning faint praise.
We should have that conversation, only a better one.
The brouhaha began when media pugilist Michael Wolff in USA Today attacked the Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism as a “disgrace” and “an intellectual failure” largely because President Lee Bollinger had appointed a traditional journalist as new dean, ex-Washington Post managing editor and New Yorker writer Steve Coll.
We should have that conversation, only a better one.
The brouhaha began when media pugilist Michael Wolff in USA Today attacked the Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism as a “disgrace” and “an intellectual failure” largely because President Lee Bollinger had appointed a traditional journalist as new dean, ex-Washington Post managing editor and New Yorker writer Steve Coll.