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November 2, 2002
The perfect J-school...
Brent Cunningham is searching for the perfect journalism school. Lee Bollinger suspended the search for a new dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism earlier this year setting off a flurry of comment on the state of journalism education. Check here for background articles. Where's my thinking on this? Well, I liked this quote by Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University’s journalism department:
"I don’t think the traditional description of what journalists do is correct. Reporting, accuracy, balance, news judgment--these of course are part of what journalists do. But journalists also legitimize people and ideas, and discredit others. They frame discussions. They are timekeepers, scorekeepers, and amplifiers. But these things are generally not taught in journalism schools."
Posted by acline at November 2, 2002 7:40 PM | | Spotlight