Jelani Cobb has taken on a job as the public face of the country’s premier j-school. | Bryan Anselm/Redux for POLITICOeverywhere?” a new student asks Cobb. “Are we part of the problem?”
An M.S. in journalism from Columbia — all told a nine and a half month program — costs an estimated $121,290. Depending on where you’re looking, a journalist with a master’s degree makes on average between $36,000 and $58,000 after graduating. Columbia can offer generous aid packages , but its students are also regularly drowning in debt. For many young people with journalistic aspirations, the training that Columbia provides is a luxury they literally cannot afford.
His office is still a work in progress . His books are boxed up and still in his old faculty office downstairs. The essentials that have made their way up to the dean’s office are his elegant road bike — he’s got a clunkier electric one as well, he says — and a photo he took of his daughter Christine, now five, playing in water sprinklers.
“One of the clichés of Dr. Cobb’s class is, ‘the information you have is not as important as the information you don’t have,’” Cobb says. “This conversation just became very meta,” Cobb says. He stands at an imposing 6’3”, but in his reporting, he takes a cue from the famously diminutive Joan Didion: “Be small.”
I haven't seen a journalist in 30 years.
Hell yes, they're needed. But only taught from the 90's time. It was rough but Fairplay. At least what I remember was hard but fair. Until his fall for just a minute. As usual Republicans always reaches for the stars, to only that🌟flames out, with nothing but hate,lies & deceit.
There are no more real unbiased journalists.
Hasn't Politico clearly answered that question?
I don't know? It seems like journalist schools puts out more actors than journalists. Most of the great journalists, before the rush to get a college degree became the standard, I believe, never had more than a high school education.
they have been molded by likes of Jones, Hammity, Clucker , with sources like greeny, bobblehead, and gateboy. No funding needed, just go out and say something. Oh yea, a few reality tv shows full of actors. Acting. This is believed to be truth.
“A little under 250 new students are masked up…” Is this a 2 year old article?
Journalism has been dead for 50 years. No real journalist would recognize the sensationalism and hysteria churned out by the media these days as anything other than propaganda.