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June 22, 2008
2 Journalism Schools in New York to Bolster New-Media Centers
The graduate journalism schools at Columbia University and the City University of New York will improve their new-media programs with a total of $8-million in grants from the Tow Foundation, the charity announced today.
Columbia will receive $5-million, and CUNY $3-million. Under the terms of the grants, Columbia must garner an additional $10-million in donations within 18 months, and CUNY must raise enough to double its grant. Leonard Tow, a co-founder of the foundation, said the grants were a response to his “serious concerns about what is happening in the world of journalism.”
“I thought it was time for us to think about addressing these new-media opportunities so what we as citizens receive from them is more an accurate reflection of what is going on in the world than some opinion,” said Mr. Tow.
Columbia will use its grant to establish the Tow Center, which will build on the journalism school’s existing new-media curriculum and prepare students for careers in digital and online journalism. The school will hire two full-time faculty members to lead the center. The school’s dean, Nicholas Lemann, said the grant had already made an impact: Bill Grueskin of The Wall Street Journal, who two weeks ago was hired as the school’s academic dean, wanted to be involved in the new-media center, Mr. Lemann said.
“Big changes are afoot in journalism, which makes the role of journalism schools vital in a way that it hasn’t been before,” Mr. Lemann said. He added that the center would better position the school to influence the future of journalism.
CUNY’s grant will create the Tow Center for Journalistic Innovation, which will serve a purpose similar to Columbia’s Tow Center. CUNY’s journalism school was established in the fall of 2006 with a heavy emphasis on new media, and at the Tow Center students will develop and put into play journalistic enterprises and business models.
“The old model is under great pressures, some would say crumbling in mainstream media, and there is not enough innovation,” said its dean, Stephen B. Shepard. “This is meant to be a spur in innovation.” —Allie Grasgreen
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Columbia University has regularly manipulated the press. One of the most egregious examples was when Columbia tried to control coverage of its troubled Middle Eastern Studies dept.. The New York Times agreed to allow Columbia to dictate media coverage. But the Columbia Spectator, with no support from the Columbia J-School, refused to be bought. And there are dozens of other examples of Columbia controlling media coverage of the University (Columbia controls too many media awards and journalists can’t afford to cross the J-School).
This Tow Foundation grant to Columbia is ironic at best.
— Columbia Prof Jun 23, 07:56 AM #
agree with the Columbia prof.
— vinnie Jun 23, 12:26 PM #
1) I’m sorry that this “Columbia Prof” seems opposed to public relations and the existence of the field. What the J-School has to do with any of this is unclear.
2) Doug- because the J school is a professional masters program and not a scholarly program. Its aim is to teach the practice of journalism, not the theory/history thereof. See, also, law schools whose professors are JDs, med schools whose professors are MDs, etc.
The “level of scholarship”? Most people at the J-School dont produce scholarship, but produce applied pieces of journalism. Moreover, Doug, if you look at most Journalism schools, this is common. Heck, many colleges are hiring practitioners to teach arts and sciences classes.
— Obvious Jun 23, 05:58 PM #
In response to “Obvious”‘s 2nd point:
Quite a few law professors — especially the younger ones — have both J.D.‘s and Ph.D.‘s. It’s rather hard to get into the field now with just a J.D. unless you have a really prestigious judicial clerkship under your belt. Besides, even the law profs who have only J.D.‘s produce serious scholarship, not “applied pieces” of lawyering.
This doesn’t mean there is something wrong with the percentage of non-Ph.D.‘s on the CU journalism faculty. I have no opinion on that point.
— CU Alum Jun 23, 07:26 PM #