Call it an educational identity crisis. The president of Columbia University has abruptly called off the search for a new dean at its prestigious journalism school, so they can figure out what the school should be. Or, more specifically, until they decide “what journalism should look like in the contemporary world and how future journalists should be taught.”
The conversation that started in New York, now has hacks across the country tuning in, weighing in on whether journalism is best learned in the classroom or the newsroom, and whether the expectations of readers and listeners and viewers will be served by the latest journalistic therapy session. Reporters, marking their own copy.
Guests:
Orville Schell, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, and contributor to The New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine
Gregory Favre, Distinguished Fellow of Journalism at the Poynter Institute, former editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and The Sacramento Bee, and the past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.