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TIME OUT FROM ENGLISH GRAMMAR

This section features wide-ranging, thought-provoking articles in English on any subject under the sun. Its objective is to present new, mind-changing ideas as well as to show to serious students of English how the various tools of the language can be felicitously harnessed to report a momentous or life-changing finding or event, to espouse or oppose an idea, or to express a deeply felt view about the world around us.

The outstanding English-language expositions to be featured here will mostly be presented through links to the websites that carry them. To put a particular work in better context, links to critiques, biographical sketches, and various other material about the author and his or her works will usually be also provided.

I hope you’ll enjoy the new selections that will be presented here each week.

Joe Carillo

Journalism schools need paradigm shift in reporting to survive

In recent years, the economic logic of news organizations worldwide has been under siege by the Internet, which makes every component part of the news separately and instantly available to anyone with a broadband connection—and virtually for free! As a result, news organizations are fast losing readers and advertisers and are now having serious trouble paying for their high-value original reporting on public affairs.

In an article for the November 15, 2009 issue of The Chronicle Review, “Journalism Schools Can Push Coverage Beyond Breaking News,” Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, urges journalism schools to seriously explore the possibility of becoming significant producers of original news reporting to make up for the loss of the reporting that economically devastated news organizations can no longer afford. Lemann explains: “Journalism schools not only can replace the original reporting capability that news organizations have lost, but also can raise the level of sophistication in the practice of journalism. Why? Because so many of them are located in research universities that are our society’s leading collections of top-level expertise across all realms of knowledge.”

Read Nicholas Lemann’s article in The Chronicle Review now!

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