By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/10/12 10:46am

Journalism School

Nicholas Lemann

Columbia J School Dean Nicholas Lemann to Step Down

Nicholas Lemann announced that he will step down after a decade as the dean of Columbia Journalism School at the end of the year. Mr. Lemann, who is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, will take a year’s sabbatical before returning to the J School in 2014 as a faculty member.

“It’s a good moment for a new dean, with a new set of ideas, to come in. I have had a wonderful time leading this institution, and it’s hard to express how grateful I am to the many people who have helped along the way,” Mr. Lemann wrote in an email to friends, colleagues and students.  Read More

By Sharon Elizabeth Samuel 4/06/11 1:26pm

The New York Times

NYT's Arthur Sulzberger and Janet Robinson Insist the Paywall Is Not a Paywall

Rather, it’s an “online pricing plan,” a “digital subscription plan.” “It’s not like the Times of London wall,” said Sulzberger, noting the porousness and searchability of the new New York Times.

Yet at last night’s discussion at the Columbia Journalism School, entitled ‘The Future of Media, Publishing and Paid Content’, the audience just couldn’t shake Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 5/07/08 8:23pm

J School Students to Star in Scintillating Film about J School

Tomorrow and for the next few days, Columbia School of Journalism students will star in a short, and surely quite unjournalistic, film about Columbia J School.

Sounds scintillating, no?

The graduate school’s associate dean for communications sent out the following email today to give both the camera-wary and the hams among the student body a Read More

By Joe Pompeo 4/18/08 11:04am

Felix Dennis On His Murder Stunt: April Fools!

Felix Dennis, the billionaire publisher of Maxim who was the first person to say the word “cunt” on live British television, cut right to the chase last night at the Columbia Journalism School.

“Let’s get the murder thing out of the way,” he said in his refined British accent, alluding to his outrageous, and subsequently Read More