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Graduate of America's Most Prestigious Journalism School Unable to Understand Cell Phones
Hamilton Nolan · 03/18/10 04:06PMJ-School State of Mind: Columbia's Finest Throw Down The Sick Rhymes
Foster Kamer · 10/25/09 04:15PMJ-Schoolers Meet the New Boss: TMZ's Harvey Levin
Gabriel Snyder · 09/11/09 01:18PMCan You Repay J-School Debt with NPR Airtime?
Gabriel Snyder · 09/01/09 12:45PMA Blogger's Introduction to Reporting
Gabriel Snyder · 08/25/09 03:56PMThe First Rule of J-School Is You Don't Talk About J-School Debt
Gabriel Snyder · 08/12/09 03:56PMColumbia Journalism School: Den of Filth
The Cajun Boy · 07/17/09 12:19AMRoger Ailes On His Secrets Of Success
Choire · 10/08/07 09:50AMIt's so hard not to love Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch's evil henchman and honcho of Fox News and the new Fox Business Network. Here's his notable quotable from a Q&A with Rebecca Dana in the Wall Street Journal: People say, 'How can you? You didn't go to Columbia Journalism School, how can you run a news organization?' I say, 'I have two qualifications: One, I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School, so there's a chance I'll be fair, and, two, I never want to go to a party in this town, so there's nobody's ass I have to kiss.'"
The 'New York Review Of Magazines' Party
Doree · 05/11/07 12:57PMThe New York Review of Magazines comes out once a year, at the end of the second semester of Columbia grad J-school's magazine concentration. The 15 or so students in the course should all operate under the assumption (illusion?) that they will, upon completion of this course, get wonderful editorial assistant positions at Serious Magazines, like Esquire. Or the New Yorker! Or perhaps that's what they secretly dream; the crowd gathered at the Essex restaurant on the Lower East Side (take the 1 from 116th and B'way to 14th St., transfer to the F) last night seemed defensively glum about their prospects. Except for the ones who already had jobs, of course! That one is working at the New York Observer; this one at the Columbia Journalism Review; and that other one for one of those fashion trade mags.
Columbia J-Schoolers, Meet Ben Bradlee
Doree · 04/06/07 10:20AMThe speaker at this year's Columbia J-School commencement is former Washington Post executive editor and current WaPo VP Ben Bradlee, he of Deep Throat knowledge and Pentagon Papers-publishing, as Columbia Dean of Students Sree Sreenivasan wrote in an email to students yesterday. But do all of the J-schoolers know who Bradlee is? Sreenivasan's email seemed to imply they sure might not.
Columbia J-School Students Learn That Playing Journalist Isn't All Fun And Games
Doree · 03/23/07 11:47AMWe're hearing that two of the bright young things up at Columbia Journalism School were arrested last evening, after attempting to take video footage outside of the 33rd Precinct police station at 170th and Amsterdam for a story they were doing about the rise of crime in Washington Heights. The students were reportedly put in jail for two agonizing, torturous hours before being allowed to flee back to the safety of the computer labs at 116th and Broadway, where they would be able to regale their fellow budding journalists with tales of their courage, etc., in the face of the big, mean NYPD.
Columbia J-School Student Taking Self-Promotion to a New Level
Doree Shafrir · 01/19/07 12:20PMMeet Columbia Journalism School student Sheena Tahilramani, pictured at right in an apparently self-fashioned dress made of newspapers. We're not quite sure what, exactly, is going on with her website, other than lots of cleavage; she apparently refuses to believe the old "face for print" adage applies to her. So far, her career highlights include an internship at the L.A. Times and an appearance on Wheel of Fortune. All she needs now is a blog to start giving Julia Allison a run for her money.
Columbia J-School Ethics Scandal Gets More Scandalous, McCarthy-esque
Doree Shafrir · 12/14/06 01:50PMColumbia Journalism School was thrown into a tizzy recently with the revelations that there had been improprieties surrounding the school's ethics exam. But now a couple weeks have gone by, and the news reports have slowed to a trickle. Of course, that doesn't mean that all is well in Morningside Heights. A tipster reports from the bowels of the J-school:
Columbia J-School Students Want Their Money Back
Doree Shafrir · 12/04/06 01:20PMThe Columbians Speak
Doree Shafrir · 12/01/06 04:15PMA tipster reports, from the trenches of Columbia J-school, on the latest from the Great Critical Issues Scandal of 2006. Our tipster notes that Critical Issues Prof. Samuel Freedman "seems to be taking an inordinate amount of heat for this, with his picture accompanying every written word about this non-scandal [Ed. note: We took pity on Professor Freedman, so that's Columbia J-School dean Nick Lemann pictured at right]." The ins and outs of the "non-scandal" are a little complicated, and frankly, a little boring—basically, someone said that people were passing the questions around, which is verboten because it's an opinion test. Sayeth our tipster:
Columbia J-School Students, Gawker Readers Have New Chance to be Ethical
Doree Shafrir · 12/01/06 03:15PMMedia Bubble: Ironies Abound
abalk2 · 12/01/06 10:20AM'Village Voice': Happy to Accept Sloppy Seconds
sUKi · 10/20/06 05:10PMColumbia J-School Teaches Its Kids to Drink
Jesse · 05/09/06 01:39PMThere is no more important training for a young journalist than a lesson in how to hold your liquor. And there is no better way to learn to hold your liquor than at an open bar you can't get from. Hence the annual Columbia J-School booze cruise, at which this year — this is our favorite part — it seems the cocktailing will begin at 4 p.m. Of course, while an open bar would be ideal, the j-school currently charges its students a mere $38,500 in tuition and fees, and so it can afford only a cash bar. And, even better, a "cash food bar" — unless students shell out six bucks for the buffet, they're stuck with only "chips and salsa, and crudite with herbed dipping sauce." Dress is "reporter semi-formal," which seems easy enough until you remember how reporters dress, and the full email announcement is after the jump.