Archive for May, 2022

Columbia University’s New Dean of Its Graduate Journalism Program

Wednesday, May 25th, 2022

The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism has announced that Jelani Cobb will be its new dean. Cobb is a professor at the school, a staff writer at The New Yorker, an author, a documentary producer, and the director of the Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights.

On this week’s Kicker, Cobb speaks with Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, about the role of journalism at a politically fraught time, diversity efforts at the J-school and in journalism, and the high cost of degrees at institutions like Columbia.

Soundcloud link.

Monday, May 23rd, 2022

Monday, May 2nd, 2022


Chronicle of Higher Education

Quite a Backlog of Posts, Especially Regarding #PepperSprayThacker – Getting Ready for the Next Round

Monday, May 2nd, 2022