Making Journalism School More Affordable
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York got a big grant that will allow the school to work toward free tuition at a time when the profession is undergoing big changes. Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and philanthropist, and Graciela Mochkofsky, dean at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, contributing writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land (Knopf, 2022), talk about what this means for the school, individual students and the future of journalism.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYc, |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome, It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome back everybody. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:17.3 | The latest news about the news industry |
| 0:20.0 | is increasingly dire. |
| 0:21.8 | In recent months, there have been layoffs and buyouts |
| 0:24.3 | at some of the most important in venerable media institutions, |
| 0:28.3 | the Washington Post and PR even here at WNYC. |
| 0:32.2 | Last week was particularly brutal after the Los Angeles Times axed 20% of its staff, more than 100 journalists. |
| 0:40.0 | Magazines like Sports Illustrated in Time cut dozens of staffers. |
| 0:44.8 | We've even seen entire publications like the messenger fold suddenly. |
| 0:49.6 | And then there are vital local media institutions like the great New York Daily News |
| 0:54.6 | where journalists staged a one-day walkout last week to fight back against more |
| 0:59.9 | proposed cuts from its owner, Alden Capital Management. Now, it's not like there's |
| 1:05.1 | any less news to cover. In fact, the shrinking of the journalism industry and |
| 1:10.3 | the subsequent lack of trained reporters and editors working to hold people in power or |
| 1:15.4 | seeking power accountable can have truly dire consequences for our communities and our |
| 1:20.8 | democracy. |
| 1:21.8 | We're going to get to more of that in a moment. But now, and this is the |
| 1:26.1 | part listeners where if you could see me I'm sitting up a little bit straighter and |
| 1:30.3 | beaming with a little bit of alumni pride, we are going to speak to two people who |
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