One thing I learned from working at newspapers and magazines is that journalism school graduates write the least interesting stories. So I find it quite funny to learn that when it comes to new media, some at Columbia Journalism School are not rolling over easily.
Columbia J-School’s Existential Crisis — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine:
But the push for modernization has also raised the ire of some professors, particularly those closely tied to Columbia’s crown jewel, RW1. “Fuck new media,” the coordinator of the RW1 program, Ari Goldman, said to his RW1 students on their first day of class, according to one student. Goldman, a former Times reporter and sixteen-year veteran RW1 professor, described new-media training as “playing with toys,” according to another student, and characterized the digital movement as “an experimentation in gadgetry.”
