Journalism school, especially Columbia's vaunted program, is often
anti-market in outlook. Much of what the market wants, journalism
training doesn't give it.
The disgrace is not just that the school takes students' or their
parents' money to train them for a livelihood that it reasonably can
predict will not exist. But it is also an intellectual failure: The
information marketplace is going through a historic transformation,
involving form, distribution, business basis and cognitive effect, and
yet Columbia has just hired a practitioner to lead it with little or no
career experience in any of these epochal changes.
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