For your reading pleasure:
Columbia J-School walks backward onto the Web. Columbia is getting hammered over some ill-considered statements about teaching journalism. Scott Rosenberg’s piece on the dust-up is one of the best.
The dead and the dying. I already tweeted a link to Robert Picard’s reality check on newspapers but it bears repeating.
4 years of J-school to deliver the paper. Duncan Kinney’s graduates j-school and gets a paper route. He also has some plans to make his own splash in journalism, it seems.
Where is Our Orchestra? What Journalism Can Learn From the Mind-Blowing Remixes of Kutiman. Daniel Sinker made my head hurt with this post, which I’m going to be thinking about for a long time. This really deserves to be widely read.
20 Best Websites To Download Free E-Books, Part II. Because people do not live by journalism alone.
[...] The real issue, of course, isn’t whether the school can afford to change, but that it can’t afford not to. “There’s an argument about whether this is for the better or detriment of journalism,” says Tu. “I don’t get into that argument. This is the reality of journalism.” NYMag via Mark Hamilton [...]