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Who Needs Dr. J? [Journalism-school reform at Columbia]

At Columbia, students "play pretend-journalism" for 10 months and leave with a master’s degree.  "It’s striking how small has been the influence of J-school graduates on the upper reaches of American journalism." Tunku Varadarajan

—Who Needs Dr. J? [Journalism-school reform at Columbia] (WSJ)

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