Last week, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger announced that he had hired Nicholas Lemann, a New Yorker reporter and noted book author, to be dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. This was no ordinary appointment: Six months ago, in pursuit of what he declared would be an entirely new approach to teaching journalism, Mr. Read More
Lee Bollinger’s Columbia Journalism School All-Stars-Anna Quindlen, Ken Auletta & Co.-have been meeting for long dinners at the Century Association to chew over the new president’s directive to re-examine the purpose of journalism school and so far the zzzzzzzzzzz ….
“People are taking pains to agree with each other, “said one Bollinger task-force source. “There Read More
The official word on Talk magazine has been that it has turned the corner, veering away from those turbulent start-up days and heading for calmer seas. However, word has been filtering out of the construction-zone-cum-editorial-offices on 20th Street that there’s still some choppy surf.
While editor Tina Brown has made some big-ticket hires of late–including Read More
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy , by Nicholas Lemann. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 406 pages, $27.
Most of us are painfully aware of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the subject of Nicholas Lemann’s new book. We spent a few hours one day filling in little dots on a piece of flimsy Read More
