| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: "I have selected Columbia" -- Chapter 2: Schools for Journalists? -- Chapter 3: "Dealing with a wild man" -- Chapter 4: "A posthumous affair" -- Chapter 5: "We will start right away" -- Chapter 6: A building called "journalism" -- Chapter 7: "What journalism will do to Columbia" -- Chapter 8: "If seditiion is to be excluded" -- Chapter 9: Red apple and maraschino cherry -- Chapter 10: The first dean -- Chapter 11: "Ackerman hails stand of press" -- Chapter 12: The graduate school -- Chapter 13: Speaking to cabots -- Chapter 14: "My dear dean" -- Chapter 15: Outpost in chungking -- Chapter 16: "Sweat and tears" -- Chapter 17: Postwar ventures -- Chapter 18: The dean and the prizes -- Chapter 19: "Training ground" -- Chapter 20: "The Pulitzer mandate" -- Chapter 21: From dropout to dean -- Chapter 22: Short-changed -- Chapter 23: "Why a review?" -- Chapter 24: Era of expansion -- Chapter 25: Edging toward the abyss -- Chapter 26: Fallout -- Chapter 27: Desperately seeking a dean -- Chapter 28: "Welcome to the joint" -- Chapter 29: Hohenberg and the prizes -- Chapter 30: Meeting fatigue -- Chapter 31: "It appears you have a new dean" -- Chapter 32: CJR-from new management to old -- Chapter 33: "Sour apples" -- Chapter 34: Showdown -- Chapter 35: To the exits -- Chapter 36: The conglomerate -- Chapter 37: "Deans' Row" -- Chapter 38: Trying to stretch the year -- Chapter 39: "Clearly insufficient" -- Chapter 40: Has the Pulitzer idea survived? |
| Summary |
Marking the centennial of the founding of Columbia University's school of journalism, this candid history of the school's evolution is set against the backdrop of the ongoing debate over whether journalism can?or should?be taught in America's universities. Originally known as ""the Pulitzer School"" in honor of its chief benefactor, the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia's school of journalism has long been a significant and highly visible presence in the journalism community. But at the turn of the twentieth century, when the school was originally conceived, journalism wa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Columbia University. Graduate School of Journalism -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Columbia University. Graduate School of Journalism fast |
| Subject |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003043479 |
| ISBN |
0231500173 |
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9780231500173 |
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