This morning, as I was browsing the tweets I had missed during my sleep, I came across this disturbing post by NYU’s Journalism professor and prolific Twitter user, Jay Rosen,
which directed me to a Columbia Journalism Review article explaining why Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism decided to suspend the operation of the environmental journalism concentration.
Frankly, I don’t support this choice. Even if the recent financial crisis has given potentially fatal wounds to journalism’s corpus, the human-induced climate change still finds its place in the headlines of the major news outlets. Only a few weeks before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, environmental journalists with a strong dedication to excellence in reporting and a robust code of ethics should be highly sought after and not deprived from quality scholarly nests.
Columbia, there should had been another way. It’s rather discontenting to see one of the most prestigious journalism schools in the world setting an example on how money trump education.
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