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Well, it would be one thing for the relevance, ethics, and financial viability of news organizations if newspaper readership surveys told us that U.S. newspaper readers want more celebrity gossip news, more comics, and photos of topless women-like some newspapers in a few other countries.See the full content of this document
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Medill 2020: 411 or 911?
Editor's Note
Who would have guessed that journalism curricula could be so controversial? First, there was a president at Columbia University, himself a noted First Amendment scholar, who a few years ago halted a journalism dean search, which led to the appointment of Nicholas Lemann and then a second master's degree program there, various M.A. degrees to go along with the traditional M.S.More recently and still going on is controversy about what the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University is calling Medill 2020, a new curriculum that supposedly prepares students for what journalism jobs will be like in 202...See the full content of this document
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