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Dateline: Library - Services Supporting A Proposed Journalism Program, Aimee Dechambeau, Barbara Selvin
Dateline: Library - Services Supporting A Proposed Journalism Program, Aimee Dechambeau, Barbara Selvin
Aimee deChambeau
A brief case study outlining opportunities presented for the library to become an integral part of a new journalism program.
The Media's Ancien Regime, Hugh Hewitt
The Media's Ancien Regime, Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt
Columbia School of Journalism is undertaking a major change via the introduction of a second graduate degree program. Dean Nicholas Leman believes that decline in credibility of major media can be arrested via the teaching to journalists of power skills, e.g. regression analysis, that equip them to provide readers/listeners with more than an account of competing narratives. The attempt is doomed, according to Hewitt, not because of journalists' inability to learn new skills, but because of a uniformity of ideological beliefs that inevitably distort stories and thus diminish credibility in a way that cannot be hidden from a networked world. …